Endometrial decidualization does not trigger the blood pressure decline of normal early pregnancy in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Barrette, Valérie F ^a   Adams, Michael A ^a   Croy, B Anne ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decidua; Mean arterial pressure; Mouse pseudopregnancy; Radiotelemetry; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; MITOGENIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASECTOMY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BREEDING; DECIDUA; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOTENSION; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONCANAVALIN A; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOTENSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MITOGENS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL;

EID: 84860609387     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.096958     Document Type: Article

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