Resistance artery adaptation to pregnancy counteracts the vasoconstricting influence of plasma from normal pregnant women

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-39

  Amburgey, Ödül A ^a   Reeves, Shane A ^a   Bernstein, Ira M ^a   Cipolla, Marilyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrovasculature; Circulating factors; Plasma; Vasodilator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DRUG EFFECT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ENZYME INHIBITOR; INDOMETACIN; N(G) NITROARGININE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOMETHACIN; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NITROARGININE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 77449119142     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719109345288     Document Type: Article

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