Nitric oxide levels in women with missed and threatened abortion: results of a pilot study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 744-748

  Paradisi, Roberto ^a   Fabbri, Raffaella ^a   Battaglia, Cesare ^a   Facchinetti, Fabio ^b   Venturoli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL PROTECTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MISSED ABORTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOCOLYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINA BLEEDING; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, MISSED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34548398006     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.026     Document Type: Article

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