Basal and flow-mediated nitric oxide production by atheromatous coronary arteries

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1256-1262

  Tousoulis, Dimitris ^a   Tentolouris, Costas ^a   Crake, Tom ^b   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a   Davies, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASODILATION;

EID: 0030970458     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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