Purine and pyrimidine nucleotide metabolism of vascular smooth muscle cells in culture

General Pharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 837-844

  James, Sally G ^a,b   Appleby, Geoffrey J ^a   Miller, Kelly A ^a   Steen, John T ^a   Colquhoun, Eric Q ^a   Clark, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytidine; Paracrine and autocrine functions; Purine and pyrimide release; Uracil; Uric acid; Uridine; UTP; Vascular tissue

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADRENALIN; ANGIOTENSIN; CARBACHOL; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ECTONUCLEOTIDASE; ISOPRENALINE; NORADRENALIN; NUCLEOTIDASE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; AORTA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE METABOLISM; PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SMOOTH MUSCLE SPASM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0030198610     PISSN: 03063623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-3623(95)02087-X     Document Type: Article

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