Glycyrrhetinic acid-sensitive mechanism does not make a major contribution to non-prostanoid, non-nitric oxide mediated endothelium- dependent relaxation of rat mesenteric artery in response to acetylcholine

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-239

  Tanaka, Yoshio ^a   Otsuka, Akiko ^a   Tanaka, Hikaru ^a   Shigenobu, Koki ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

18ALPHA GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; 2 (4 AMYLCINNAMIDO) 4 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; APAMIN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHARYBDOTOXIN; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; IBERIOTOXIN; INDOMETACIN; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 INHIBITOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROSTANOID; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISM; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; GAP JUNCTION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPOPROSTENOL; GLYBURIDE; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

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