Control of regional blood flow by endothelium-derived nitric oxide

Hypertension

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 486-492

  Gardiner, Sheila M ^a   Compton, Alix M ^a   Bennett, Terence ^a   Palmer, Richard M J ^b   Moncada, Salvador ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arginine vasopressin; Endothelium; Hemodynamics; Long Evans rats; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

6 N ETHYLARGININE; ARGININE; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED CONSTRICTING FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMAL; ARGININE; BLOOD CIRCULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0025235343     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.15.5.486     Document Type: Article

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