Prolonged L-arginine on cardiovascular mass and myocardial hemodynamics and collagen in aged spontaneously hypertensive rats and normal rats

Hypertension

Volumn 33, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 451-455

  Susic, Dinko ^a   Francischetti, Aloisio ^a   Frohlich, Edward D ^a  

^a OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hemodynamics, coronary; Hypertension; L arginine; Mass, aortic; Mass, ventricular; Myocardial collagen concentration

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DRUG EFFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032954522     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.33.1.451     Document Type: Article

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