Estradiol accelerates functional endothelial recovery after arterial injury

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1768-1772

  Krasinski, Kevin ^a   Spyridopoulos, Ioakim ^a   Asahara, Takayuki ^a   Van Der Zee, Rien ^a   Isner, Jeffrey M ^a   Losordo, Douglas W ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

angioplasty; endothelium; women

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030901572     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.7.1768     Document Type: Article

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