Elevation of oxygen release by nitroglycerin without an increase in blood flow in the hepatic microcirculation

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 456-459

  Kosaka, Hiroaki ^a,b   Seiyama, Akitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; LIVER; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NITROGLYCERIN; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030958223     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0497-456     Document Type: Article

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