Histamine H1-receptor antagonists do not prevent the appearance of endothelium-dependent relaxation to acetylcholine in rat pulmonary artery

Physiological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 345-350

  Kysela S ^a   Torok J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; histamine; histaminergic receptor antagonists; pulmonary artery; relaxation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CIMETIDINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HISTAMINE RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; PHENYLEPHRINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY ARTERY; RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CIMETIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HISTAMINE H2 ANTAGONISTS; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; PULMONARY ARTERY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, HISTAMINE H1; VASODILATION;

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