Mechanism of adrenomedullin-induced relaxation in isolated canine retinal arteries

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-61

  Okamura, Tomio ^a   Ayajiki, Kazuhide ^a   Kangawa, Kenji ^b   Toda, Noboru ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

adrenomedullin; calcitonin gene related peptide; central retinal artery; cyclic adenosine monophosphate; cyclic guanosine monophosphate

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADRENOMEDULLIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BERAPROST; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; INDOMETACIN; METHYLENE BLUE; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; POTASSIUM ION; PROSTACYCLIN DERIVATIVE; PROSTANOID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY;

ADRENOMEDULLIN; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; DOGS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GLYBURIDE; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITROARGININE; PEPTIDES; RETINAL ARTERY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0031018868     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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