Effect of betamethasone administration to the pregnant baboon at 0.75 gestation on placental eNOS distribution and activity

Placenta

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 780-787

  Aida, K ^a   Wang, X L ^b,c   Wang, J ^b,c   Li, C ^a   McDonald, T J ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Baylor College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; CHORIONIC VILLI; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 4644236342     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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