Increased response to prostaglandin H2 precedes changes in PGH synthase-1 expression in the SHR aorta

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1087-1092

  Ge, Tong ^a   Vanhoutte, Paul M ^b   Boulanger, Chantal M ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IRIS Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier   (France)

^c HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Endothelium dependent contractions; Inbred SHR; Inbred WKY; Nitroarginine; Polymerase chain reaction; Prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN H2; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; PROSTAGLANDINS H; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032804910     PISSN: 02539756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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