Pregnancy impairs baroreflex control of heart rate in rats: Role of insulin sensitivity

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Brooks, Virginia L ^a   Mulvaney, Julia M ^a   Azar, Afaf S ^a   Zhao, Ding ^a   Goldman, Robert K ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp; Insulin resistance; Mean arterial pressure; Spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HEART RATE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LABOR; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HEART RATE; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; OXYTOCIN; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TELEMETRY;

EID: 75449083559     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00441.2009     Document Type: Article

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