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Rheological and Physiological Consequences of Conversion of the Maternal Spiral Arteries for Uteroplacental Blood Flow during Human Pregnancy

Physiological conversion of the maternal spiral arteries is key to a successful human pregnancy. It involves loss of smooth muscle and the elastic lamina from the vessel wall as far as the inner third of the myometrium, and is associated with a 5–10-fold dilation at the vessel mouth. Failure of conv...

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Autores principales: Burton, G.J., Woods, A.W., Jauniaux, E., Kingdom, J.C.P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: W.B. Saunders 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19375795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.placenta.2009.02.009