Augmented EDHF signaling in rat uteroplacental vasculature during late pregnancy

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Gokina, N I ^a   Kuzina, O Y ^a   Vance, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Calcium activated potassium channels; Endothelial calcium signaling; Smooth muscle cell hyperpolarization

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; APAMIN; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CHARYBDOTOXIN; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED HYPERPOLARIZING FACTOR; FURA 2; IBERIOTOXIN; INDOMETACIN; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POTASSIUM; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DEPOLARIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UPREGULATION; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; APAMIN; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHARYBDOTOXIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; INDOMETHACIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 78249279683     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00227.2010     Document Type: Article

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