Soy isoflavones enhance coronary vascular reactivity in atherosclerotic female macaques

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 148-154

  Honoré, Erika K ^a   Williams, J Koudy ^a   Anthony, Mary S ^a   Clarkson, Thomas B ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; isoflavones; phytoestrogens; rhesus macaques; soybeans; vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; GENISTEIN; ISOFLAVONE; PHYTOESTROGEN; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0031033526     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81872-9     Document Type: Article

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