Baroreflex function in females: Changes with the reproductive cycle and pregnancy

Gender Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 61-67

  Brooks, Virginia L ^a   Cassaglia, Priscila A ^a   Zhao, Ding ^a,b   Goldman, Robert K ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 OH DHP baroreflex sensitivity; hemorrhage; insulin; sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN; PROGESTERONE; ROSIGLITAZONE;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN STEM; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; OBESITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STANDING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84859553813     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: 18787398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2012.02.004     Document Type: Review

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