Effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on vascular resistance in rats: Role of sex steroids

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 6 45-6, 1999, Pages

  Grewal, Michelle ^a   Cuevas, Janis ^a   Chaudhuri, Gautam ^a,b   Nathan, Lauren ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Nitric oxide; Progesterone; Uterine vascular bed

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE[8-37]; ESTRADIOL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0033056093     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.h2063     Document Type: Article

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