Role of nitric oxide in mediating in vivo vascular responses to calcitonin gene-related peptide in essential and peripheral circulations in the fetus

Circulation

Volumn 112, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2510-2516

  Thakor, A S ^a   Giussani, Dino A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; Fetus; Hemodynamics; Nitric oxide; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHEEP; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETUS; NITRIC OXIDE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; VASODILATION;

EID: 27144548559     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.562546     Document Type: Article

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