Local versus systemic influences on uterine vascular reactivity during pregnancy in the single-horn gravid rat

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 723-729

  Fuller, Robert ^a   Colton, Ilsley ^a   Gokina, Natalia ^a   Mandala, Maurizio ^b   Osol, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

endothelium; pregnancy; uterine arteries; vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS; ISOLATED ARTERY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; UTERUS; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 79961072862     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719110396700     Document Type: Article

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