Vascular hyperresponsiveness to adrenomedullin during pregnancy is associated with increased generation of cyclic nucleotides in rat mesenteric artery

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 118-123

  Ross, Gracious R ^a   Yallampalli, Chandra ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Blood pressure; Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Cyclic guanosine monophosphate; Cyclic nucleotides; Pregnancy; Vascular relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ADRENOMEDULLIN; ADRENOMEDULLIN[22-52]; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; NORADRENALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

ADRENOMEDULLIN; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33845737755     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.053777     Document Type: Article

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