The effects of disease severity and sex on coronary endothelium- dependent vasomotor function in an atherosclerotic primate model

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 579-585

  Honoré, Erika K ^a   Williams, J Koudy ^a   Washburn, Scott A ^a   Herrington, David M ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

angiography; atherosclerosis; estrogen; females; males; rhesus macaques; vasomotion

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ESTROGEN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0029961505     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-199608000-00004     Document Type: Article

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