Effect of pregnancy and nitric oxide on the myogenic vasodilation of posterior cerebral arteries and the lower limit of cerebral blood flow autoregulation

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1046-1054

  Chapman, Abbie C ^a,b   Cipolla, Marilyn J ^a,b   Chan, Siu Lung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CBF autoregulation; hypotension; myogenic vasodilation; nitric oxide; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC HYPOTENSION; NONHUMAN; PIA ARTERY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASODILATATION;

CBF AUTOREGULATION; HYPOTENSION; MYOGENIC VASODILATION; NITRIC OXIDE; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTENSION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASODILATION;

EID: 84882366396     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719112473661     Document Type: Article

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