Gender differences in coronary artery diameter involve estrogen, nitric oxide, and Ca2+-dependent K+ channels

Circulation Research

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1024-1030

  Wellman, George C ^a   Bonev, Adrian D ^a   Nelson, Mark T ^a   Brayden, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery; estrogen; K+ channels; nitric oxide; vasodilation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ESTROGEN; IBERIOTOXIN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CORONARY ARTERY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0029862386     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.79.5.1024     Document Type: Article

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