Impact of experimental diabetes on the maternal uterine vascular remodeling during rat pregnancy

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-331

  Phillips, Julie K ^a   Vance, Amanda M ^a   Raj, Renju S ^a   Mandalà, Maurizio ^b   Linder, Erika A ^a   Gokina, Natalia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

arterial wall distensibility; stiffness; streptozotocin; uterine vascular growth

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NERVE ELONGATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84859845182     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111424435     Document Type: Article

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