Comparison of cholinergic vasodilator responses to acetylcholine and methacholine in the human forearm

Blood Pressure

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 333-341

  Bruning, Tobias A ^a,b   Chang, Peter C ^a   Kemme, Michiel J B ^a   Vermeij, Pieter ^a   Pfaffendorf, Martin ^b   Van Zwieten, Pieter A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Endothelium derived relaxing factor; Forearm; Methacholine; Plethysmography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; METHACHOLINE; METHYLENE BLUE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0029827282     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037059609078071     Document Type: Article

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