Table 3.

Elastic modulus, k, for small coronary, cerebral, renal, mesenteric and femoral arteries of fetal sheep following daily maternal infusion for 1 h of saline (n = 6) or alcohol (n = 6)

	Saline	Alcohol	P
Coronary	16.4 ± 1.7	31.4 ± 3.8*	0.005
Cerebral	19.7 ± 2.3	33.5 ± 4.8*	0.002
Renal	15.7 ± 1.2	26.6 ± 1.9*	0.0007
Mesenteric	21.3 ± 1.9	33.7 ± 2.3*	0.002
Femoral	35.4 ± 2.5	63.3 ± 7.1*	0.004

The statistical significance of the data is indicated by P;

^*significant difference between saline and alcohol treatment.