Gender differences in coronary artery diameter reflect changes in both endothelial Ca2+ and ecNOS activity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 3 45-3, 1999, Pages

  Knot, Harm J ^a,b   Lounsbury, Karen M ^a   Brayden, Joseph E ^a   Nelson, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Coronary disease; Endothelial constitutive nitric oxide synthase; Endothelium; Hormones; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0032897511     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.3.h961     Document Type: Article

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