Pregnancy-induced remodelling and enhanced endothelium-derived hyperpolarization-type vasodilator activity in rat uterine radial artery: Transient receptor potential vanilloid type 4 channels, caveolae and myoendothelial gap junctions

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 223, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 677-686

  Senadheera, Sevvandi ^a   Bertrand, Paul P ^b   Grayson, T Hilton ^a   Leader, Leo ^a   Murphy, Timothy V ^a   Sandow, Shaun L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell coupling; Endothelium; Morphology; Smooth muscle; Transient receptor potential type 4; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAVEOLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIAL ARTERY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

RATTUS;

CELL COUPLING; ENDOTHELIUM; MORPHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL TYPE 4; VASODILATION;

ANIMALS; CAVEOLAE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; RADIAL ARTERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRPV CATION CHANNELS; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; VASODILATION;

EID: 84887409110     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12127     Document Type: Article

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