Sildenafil citrate treatment enhances amino acid availability in the conceptus and fetal growth in an ovine model of intrauterine growth restriction

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-258

  Satterfield, M Carey ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; POLYAMINE; SILDENAFIL;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHESIS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL SERUM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UMBILICUS; VEIN;

AMINO ACIDS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PIPERAZINES; PLACENTA; POLYAMINES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PURINES; SHEEP; SULFONES; UMBILICAL VEINS; UTERINE ARTERY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

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EID: 74949087697     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.109.114678     Document Type: Article

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