Long-term exposure to high-altitude chronic hypoxia during gestation induces neonatal pulmonary hypertension at sea level

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Herrera, Emilio A ^a,b,c   Riquelme, Raquel A ^b   Ebensperger, Germán ^a   Reyes, Roberto V ^a   Ulloa, César E ^a   Cabello, Gertrudis ^e   Krause, Bernardo J ^a   Parer, Julian T ^d   Giussani, Dino A ^c   Llanos, Aníbal J ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction; Pulmonary vascular reactivity; Pulmonary vasoconstrictors; Pulmonary vasodilators

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYPOXIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEA LEVEL; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 78649824786     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00123.2010     Document Type: Article

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