ACE2 and ANG-(1-7) in the rat uterus during early and late gestation

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Neves, Liomar A A ^a   Stovall, Kathryn ^a   Joyner, JaNae ^a   Valdés, Gloria ^b   Gallagher, Patricia E ^a   Ferrario, Carlos M ^a   Merrill, David C ^a   Brosnihan, K Bridget ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Implantation; Renin angiotensin system

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSIN 5; ANGIOTENSIN 6; ANGIOTENSIN 7; ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; ANGIOTENSIN I; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANGIOTENSIN II [3-8]; ANGIOTENSIN III; ESTRADIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; UTERUS;

AMNION; ANGIOTENSIN I; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; DECIDUA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS; YOLK SAC;

EID: 38149051358     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00514.2007     Document Type: Article

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