Potassium channels and uterine vascular adaptation to pregnancy and chronic hypoxia

Current Vascular Pharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 737-747

  Zhu, Ronghui ^a   Xiao, DaLiao ^a   Zhang, Lubo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Potassium channels; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ANGIOTENSIN II; APRIKALIM; BIMAKALIM; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CHARYBDOTOXIN; CROMAKALIM; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DIAZOXIDE; ENDOTHELIN 1; ESTRADIOL; G PROTEIN COUPLED INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; GLIBENCLAMIDE; IBERIOTOXIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.1; MEFENAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MINOXIDIL SULFATE; NICORANDIL; PAXILLINE; PINACIDIL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN KINASE C; SEX HORMONE; SULFONYLUREA RECEPTOR; TETRYLAMMONIUM; TOLAZAMIDE; TOLBUTAMIDE;

BLOOD VESSEL TONE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISCHEMIA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

EID: 84888100479     PISSN: 15701611     EISSN: 18756212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1570161111311050011     Document Type: Review

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