Effects of pre- and periconceptional undernutrition on arterial function in adult female sheep are vascular bed dependent

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1024-1033

  Torrens, Christopher ^a,e   Snelling, Tristram H ^a,b   Chau, Ryan ^a,b   Shanmuganathan, Meena ^a   Cleal, Jane K ^a   Poore, Kirsten R ^a   Noakes, David E ^c   Poston, Lucilla ^d   Hanson, Mark A ^a   Green, Lucy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EWE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HINDLIMB; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; RENAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FERTILIZATION; MALNUTRITION; MAMMARY ARTERIES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RENAL ARTERY; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 68949107496     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2009.047340     Document Type: Article

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