Pravastatin affects blood pressure and vascular reactivity

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 64-68

  Li, Nanfang ^a   Sawamura, Makoto ^a   Nara, Yasuo ^a   Ikeda, Katsumi ^a   Yamori, Yukio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Mevalonate; Pravastatin; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Vasocontraction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MEVALONIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; PRAVASTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEVALONIC ACID; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRAVASTATIN; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0030037252     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01744505     Document Type: Article

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