Evans' blue dye abolishes endothelium-dependent relaxation of rabbit aortic rings [2]

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 129-131

  Forster, B A ^a   Weinberg, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

endothelium dependent relaxation; Evans blue dye; nitric oxide; trypan blue

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; EVANS BLUE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0031055318     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(96)06020-0     Document Type: Article

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