Intracoronary infusion of reduced glutathione improves endothelial vasomotor response to acetylcholine in human coronary circulation

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 2299-2301

  Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a   Ohgushi, Masamichi ^a   Motoyama, Takeshi ^a   Hirashima, Osamu ^a   Soejima, Hirofumi ^a   Misumi, Kenji ^a   Yoshimura, Michihiro ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a   Sugiyama, Seigo ^a   Yasue, Hirofumi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Antioxidants; Endothelium derived factors; Free radicals

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUTATHIONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

EID: 0032537610     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.23.2299     Document Type: Article

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