Remodeling of fetoplacental arteries in rats due to chronic hypoxia

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 97-103

  HvizdoSova KleScova A ^a   Uhlik J ^a   Malina, M ^b   Vulterinova H ^c   Novotny T ^a   Vajner, L ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^c Sisters of Mercy of St Charles Borromeo Hospital in Prague   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; ENOS; Immunohistochemistry; INOS; Morphometry; Placenta

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL ARTERY; FETUS; HYPOXIA; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RAT; RETICULUM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CHORION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84870247816     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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