Acetylcholine vasodilation of resistance vessels in vivo may not entirely depend on newly synthesized nitric oxide

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 291-293

  Ross, Gordon ^a   Chaudhuri, Gautam ^a,b   Ignarro, Louis J ^b   Chyu, Kuang Yuh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(Cat); (endothelium derived relaxing factor); Acetylcholine; Blood flow; EDRF; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ARGININE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HINDLIMB; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMAL; ARGININE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATS; DENERVATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HINDLIMB; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION;

EID: 0026065432     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(91)90549-6     Document Type: Article

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