Reactivity of human placental chorionic plate vessels from pregnancies complicated by intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 518-523

  Wareing, Mark ^a   Greenwood, Susan L ^a   Fyfe, Gregor K ^a   Baker, Philip N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; OXYGEN; THROMBOXANE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MYOGRAPHY; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENOCONSTRICTION;

15-HYDROXY-11 ALPHA,9 ALPHA-(EPOXYMETHANO)PROSTA-5,13-DIENOIC ACID; 4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MYOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PREGNANCY; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VEINS;

EID: 33749080783     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.051607     Document Type: Article

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