Table 2.

Vascular dimensions of blood vessels collected from ewes fed endophyte-infected (E+) or endophyte-free (E–) seed from day 35 to d 133 or switched on day 86 of gestation¹

Variable2	Seed treatment				SEM	P-value
	E–E–	E+E–	E–E+	E+E+
Uterine artery
Inside diameter, mm	1.25a	1.31a	1.07b	1.14b	0.03	< 0.01
Outside diameter, mm	2.91a	2.83a	2.71b	2.55c	0.04	< 0.01
Wall thickness, mm	0.83a	0.75b	0.82a	0.70c	0.01	< 0.01
Umbilical artery
Outside diameter, mm	3.06a	3.1a	2.73b	2.76b	0.05	< 0.01

¹Unable to collect umbilical artery inside diameter.

²Wall thickness = (outside-inside diameter)/2.

^abValues not sharing like superscripts within a row are different (P < 0.05).