Remodelling and enhanced myogenic tone in cerebral resistance arteries isolated from genetically hypertensive brattleboro rats

Journal of Vascular Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-26

  Dunn, William R ^a,b   Wallis, Sarah J ^a   Gardiner, Sheila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Hypertension; Myogenic tone; Remodelling; Resistance arteries

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL;

15-HYDROXY-11 ALPHA,9 ALPHA-(EPOXYMETHANO)PROSTA-5,13-DIENOIC ACID; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RATS, BRATTLEBORO; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0031906177     PISSN: 10181172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000025561     Document Type: Article

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