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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pregnancy Hypertens. 2011 Dec 2;2(2):84–92. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2011.11.002

Table 2.

Uteroplacental evaluation in non-pregnant and pregnant mice

Cardiac Parameters Not pregnant (n=6) P* Embryonic Day 7 (n=6) Embryonic Day 13 (n=6) Embryonic Day 18 (n=6) P**
Fetal Heart Rate (beats/min) 146.5 (105.0–171.0) 193.0 (127.0–216.0) 0.001
Umbilical Artery
 Resistive index 0.9 (0.9–10) 0.9 (0.9–0.9) 0.25
 Peak systolic velocity (mm/s) 52.4 (23.8–77.8) 84.3 (65.4–132.0) <0.001
 End diastolic velocity (mm/s) 4.8 (2.1–7.3) 7.0 (3.2–10.9) 0.015
 Systolic/diastolic ratio 11.9 (7.6–23.0) 14.8 (8.9–18.4) 0.33
Uterine Artery
 Resistive index 0.7 (0.7–0.9) 0.59 0.7 (0.6–0.7) 0.5 (0.4–0.7) 0.6 (0.6–0.7) 0.11
 Peak systolic velocity (mm/s) 147.0 (23.4–280.4) 0.94 110.5 (72.2–239.2) 105.7 (43.7–318.4) 152.3 (87.4–209.1) 0.51
 End diastolic velocity (mm/s) 26.3 (7.7–92.6) 0.31 34.8 (28.2–64.6) 51.4 (14.9–175.8) 56.4 (30.9–73.6) 0.51
 Velocity Time Interval (mm) 22.9 (2.7–31.4) 0.82 15.5 (11.7–26.3) 13.5 (5.9–39.0) 16.0 (9.6–22.5) 0.31
 Pulsatility index 1.1 (1.1–1.8) 0.39 1.2 (0.9–1.5) 0.7 (0.5–1.2) 1.1 (0.9–1.2) 0.11
 Systolic/diastolic ratio 3.2 (2.9–10.0) 0.33 3.1 (2.3–3.6) 2.0 (1.6–3.4) 2.8 (2.5–3.3) 0.11
Placental volume (mm3) 92.8 (65.1–114.2) 166.8 (132.7–244.1) 0.03

Data are presented as median (10th–90th percentiles)

*

Exact Wilcoxon test

**

Friedman test for embryonic days 7, 13 and 18; Wilcoxon signed rank for embryonic days 13 and 18.