Endothelial vasodilator production by ovine uterine and systemic arteries: Ovarian steroid and pregnancy control of ERα and ERβ levels

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 565, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-99

  Byers, Michael J ^a   Zangl, Amy ^a   Phernetton, Terrance M ^a   Lopez, Gladys ^a   Chen, Dong Bao ^a,b   Magness, Ronald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID; SULFUR 35; ESTRADIOL; MYOSIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA PROBE; SHEEP; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ARTERY; ARTERY MUSCLE; EWE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MAMMARY ARTERY; OMENTAL ARTERY; OVARIECTOMY; PLACENTA ARTERY; PREGNANCY; SYSTEMIC ARTERY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; OVARY; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; SHEEP; UTERUS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 19444374462     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.085753     Document Type: Article

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