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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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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 |