Aging blunts remodeling of the uterine artery during murine pregnancy

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 304-310

  Van Der Heijden, Olivier W H ^b   Essers, Yvonne P G ^b   Simkens, Lieke H J ^b   Teunissen, Quirine G A ^b   Peeters, Louis L H ^b   De Mey, Jo G R ^b   Van Eys, Guillaume J J M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

aging; Arterial remodeling; mouse; pregnancy; uterine artery

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UTERINE ARTERY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS;

EID: 3042598179     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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