Control of arterial tone after long-term coenzyme Q10 supplementation in senescent rats

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1500-1506

  Lönnrot, Kimmo ^a   Pörsti, Ilkka ^a,c   Alho, Hannu ^a,d   Wu, Xiumin ^a   Hervonen, Antti ^b   Tolvanen, Jari Petteri ^a,c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arterial smooth muscle; Coenzyme Q; Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Endothelium; Prostacyclin; Ubiquinone; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; ISOPRENALINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROSTACYCLIN; UBIDECARENONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONUS; NITROPRUSSIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UBIQUINONE;

EID: 0031829432     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701970     Document Type: Article

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