17β-Oestradiol enhances nitric oxide synthase activity in endothelium-denuded rat aorta

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 120-127

  Binko, J ^a   Murphy, T V ^a,b   Majewski, H ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Lipopolysaccharide; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Oestrogen; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ESTRADIOL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PHENYLEPHRINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIESTROGEN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; NOS3 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE RELAXATION; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THORACIC AORTA; VASOCONSTRICTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0031594341     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02188.x     Document Type: Article

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