Noninvasive assessment of endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation of the brachial artery

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-92

  Uehata, Akimi ^a   Lieberman, Eric H ^a   Gerhard, Marie D ^a   Anderson, Todd J ^a   Ganz, Peter ^a   Polak, Joseph F ^a   Creager, Mark A ^a   Yeung, Alan C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachial artery; Endothelium; Flow mediated dilation; Noninvasive; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030876387     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X9700200203     Document Type: Article

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