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Pregnant rat uterine and mesenteric arteries were incubated overnight with 3% normotensive (NP) or PE plasma collected from women upon admission to hospital. Responses to methacholine (MCh) were obtained using wire myography to assess endothelial function pathways. Vascular superoxide level was measured via dihydroethidium staining and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) expression via Western blots. PE plasma significantly increased superoxide levels and impaired endothelial dysfunction in uterine arteries (Emax 79.9\u00b15.6% compared with 44.9\u00b16.3%, P=0.0004), which was restored in the presence of oxidant scavengers or PG synthesis inhibition. Uterine artery vasodilation was abolished in the presence of pan-NOS inhibitor (P&amp;lt;0.0001) in both NP- and PE-treated vessels, but inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)-dependent vasodilation was present only in NP-treated arteries. Uterine arteries exposed to PE plasma exhibit an increased endothelial NOS expression and a decreased iNOS expression. PE plasma did not alter endothelial function in mesenteric arteries, suggesting that the effect of circulating factors was vascular-bed-specific. We have shown that circulating factors lead to endothelial dysfunction via altered oxidative stress and vasodilator pathways. 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