Testosterone causes direct relaxation of rat thoracic aorta

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-39

  Costarella, Christina E ^a   Stallone, John N ^a   Rutecki, Gregory W ^a   Whittier, Frederick C ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITRO DEXTRO ARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; THORACIC AORTA; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; MALE; PHENYLEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE; VASODILATION;

EID: 0030423695     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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