α-Tocopherol prevents ethanol-induced elevation of [Ca2+](i) in cultured canine cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-20

  Zheng, Tao ^a   Li, Wenyan ^a   Zhang, Aimin ^a   Altura, Bella T ^a,b   Altura, Burtan M ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells; Ethanol; Intracellular calcium concentration; Lipid peroxidation; Membrane Ca2+ entry; Tocopherol

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; DOG; DRUG EFFECT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0032571146     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00165-7     Document Type: Article

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