Pregnancy enhances the prejunctional vasodilator response to adrenomedullin in selective regions of the arterial bed of Wistar rats

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 771-779

  Van Eijndhoven, H W F ^a,c   Aardenburg, R ^a   Spaanderman, M E A ^a   De Mey, J G R ^b   Peeters, L L H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Isala Klinieken Zwolle ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Myograph; Vasorelaxation

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; CAPSAICIN; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM ION; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SAPHENOUS ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; ARTERY; DRUG EFFECT; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY; MYOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ADRENOMEDULLIN; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; FEMALE; KIDNEY; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MYOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UTERUS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 39049085822     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719107308335     Document Type: Article

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