Chronic Hypoxia during Gestation Enhances Uterine Arterial Myogenic Tone via Heightened Oxidative Stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Xiao, Daliao ^a   Hu, Xiang Qun ^a   Huang, Xiaohui ^a   Zhou, Jianjun ^b   Wilson, Sean M ^a   Yang, Shumei ^c   Zhang, Lubo ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOCYNIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PHORBOL DIBUTYRATE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 1; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 2; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 4; TEMPOL;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SHEEP; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 84884173369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073731     Document Type: Article

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