JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION, vol.12, no.11, pp.1235-1241, 1994 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Pre-eclampsia is characterized by an increased vascular tone which might be related to an abnormal endothelial cell function. As representatives of the fetal circulation, we compared the nitric oxide (NO)-releasing capacity of human umbilical vessels from normal and pre-eclamptic pregnancies.