title: Effects of exogenous prostacyclin on placental blood flow, placental weight and fetal weight in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.
abstract: Recently, prostacyclin (PGI2) has been used for the treatment of preeclampsia. In this study, we investigated the effects of PGI2 on placental blood flow (measured with clearance of hydrogen gas generated by electrolysis) in normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The placental blood flow of PGI2-treated SHR (0.25, 0.5 and 1 mg/kg) was significantly (p less than 0.05) reduced compared with WKY. These data suggest that PGI2 has a certain reducing effect on placental blood flow in SHR; on the other hand, in WKY, it has an increasing effect depending on the dose.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University, School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Furuhashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsujiei
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yajima
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001724:Birth Weight / Q000187:drug effects*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000187:drug effects*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D011464:Epoprostenol / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D010920:Placenta / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000098:blood supply*; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY
chemical_list: D011464:Epoprostenol