Prenatal stress in the rat results in increased blood pressure responsiveness to stress and enhanced arterial reactivity to neuropeptide Y in adulthood

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 582, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 665-674

  Igosheva, Natalia ^a   Taylor, Paul D ^a   Poston, Lucilla ^a   Glover, Vivette ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LIGHT STRESS; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY; ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; EMBRYO; EMOTIONAL STRESS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PHYSICAL STRESS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 34447262829     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.130252     Document Type: Article

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