The effect of a mast cell degranulating agent on vascular resistance in the human placental vascular bed and on the tone of isolated placental vessels

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-32

  Bytautiene, Egle ^a   Vedernikov, Yuri P ^a   Saade, George R ^a   Romero, Roberto ^b   Garfield, Robert E ^a  

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

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorionic vessels; Human; Mast cells; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; COMPOUND 48-80; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; 4 METHOXY N METHYLPHENETHYLAMINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAST CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; VASCULARIZATION;

15-HYDROXY-11 ALPHA,9 ALPHA-(EPOXYMETHANO)PROSTA-5,13-DIENOIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MAST CELLS; P-METHOXY-N-METHYLPHENETHYLAMINE; PLACENTA; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PREGNANCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 38949170286     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719107309645     Document Type: Article

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