eNOS knockout mouse as a model of fetal growth restriction with an impaired uterine artery function and placental transport phenotype

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kusinski, Laura C ^a   Stanley, Joanna L ^b   Dilworth, Mark R ^a   Hirt, Cassandra J ^b   Andersson, Irene J ^b   Renshall, Lewis J ^a   Baker, Bernadette C ^a   Baker, Philip N ^b   Sibley, Colin P ^a   Wareing, Mark ^a   Glazier, Jocelyn D ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Placental insufficiency; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 2 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; FREE RADICAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; UTERINE ARTERY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM A; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEINURIA; SUPEROXIDES; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 84863517530     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00600.2011     Document Type: Article

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