Changes in vitelline and utero-placental hemodynamics: Implications for cardiovascular development

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue Nov, 2014, Pages

  Linask, Kersti K ^a   Han, Mingda ^a   Bravo Valenzuela, Nathalie J M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE CARDIOLOGIA DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Doppler ultrasound; Echocardiography; Embryonic heart; Hemodynamics; Human pregnancy; Mouse; Placenta

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HOMOCYSTEINE; LITHIUM;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CELL MATURATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW KINETICS; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PLACENTA WEIGHT; REVIEW; SMOKING; TROPHOBLAST; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

EID: 84911900163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00390     Document Type: Review

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