Experimental Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Induces Blunted Vasoconstriction and Functional Changes in the Rat Aorta

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Intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (IPGTT). Glucose concentrations during 120 min in (a) nonpregnant rats fed standard diet, SD (●), or hypercaloric diet, HD (□), and (b) pregnant rats fed standard diet, SD (♦), or hypercaloric diet, HD (). (c) HOMA index from pregnant rats (days 19–21) standard diet, SD (white), and hypercaloric diet, HD (black). versus SD, versus SD, and versus SD.

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