Calcium Sensitivity and Agonist-Induced Calcium Sensitization in Small Arteries of Young and Adult Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 442-448

  Shaw, Linda M ^a   Ohanian, Jacqueline ^a   Heagerty, Anthony M ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ALPHA TOXIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RENAL ARTERY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0030820085     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.30.3.442     Document Type: Article

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