Protein restriction to pregnant rats increases the plasma levels of angiotensin II and expression of angiotensin II receptors in uterine arteries

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gao, Haijun ^a   Yallampalli, Uma ^a   Yallampalli, Chandra ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotensin I converting enzyme; Angiotensin ii angiotensin II receptor; Developmental origins of health and disease; Gestational protein restriction; Nutrition; Pregnancy; Rat; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1A RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 1B RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; ANGIOTENSIN II; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; UTERINE ARTERY; VASOCONSTRICTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; BREEDING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; UTERINE ARTERY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84860643758     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.095844     Document Type: Article

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