Glycine rectifies vascular dysfunction induced by dietary protein imbalance during pregnancy

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 554, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 497-504

  Brawley, L ^a   Torrens, C ^a   Anthony, F W ^a   Itoh, S ^a   Wheeler, T ^a   Jackson, A A ^a   Clough, G F ^a   Poston, L ^b   Hanson, M A ^a  

^a PRINCESS ANNE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CASEIN; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; ISOPRENALINE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; DIET THERAPY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEART FUNCTION; MARE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DIETARY PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLYCINE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASODILATION;

EID: 0842301565     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.052068     Document Type: Article

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