α1-adrenoceptor vasoconstriction in the tail artery during ageing

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1017-1023

  Vila, Elisabet ^a   Vivas, Nuria M ^a   Tabernero, Antonia ^a   Giraldo, Jesús ^a   Arribas, Silvia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 adrenoceptor responsiveness; Ageing; Endothelium; Tail artery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PRAZOSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SECRETION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TAIL ARTERY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGING; ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; KINETICS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRAZOSIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TAIL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0031010735     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701193     Document Type: Article

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