Neurogenic regulation of basal tone of coronary artery with mild atherosclerosis in humans: Observation using two-dimensional intravascular ultrasound

Angiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 989-996

  Tokudome, Takeshi ^a   Mizushige, Katsufumi ^a   Ohmori, Koji ^a   Watanabe, Kazufumi ^a   Takagi, Yuichiro ^a   Takano, Yuzuru ^a   Matsuo, Hirohide ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0032787643     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331979905001204     Document Type: Article

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