Effects of endothelin-1 on vasoactivity and its synthesis, storage, and acting sites in the rat superior mesenteric vasculature: An ultrastructural and immunocytochemical study

Medical Molecular Morphology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 36-42

  Kavashima, Kotaro ^a   Doi, Yoshiaki ^a   Kudo, Hideaki ^a   Kiyonaga, Hidetoshi ^a   Fujimoto, Sunao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corrosion cast; Endothelin 1; ETA receptor; ETB receptor; Rat superior mesenteric artery

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0033035575     PISSN: 18601480     EISSN: 18601499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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