Effect of uncariae ramulus et uncus on endothelium in spontaneously hypertensive rats

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 339-345

  Goto, Hirozo ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Tanigawa, Kiyoaki ^a   Sekiya, Nobuyasu ^a   Shintani, Takahiro ^a   Terasawa, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TIME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; TIME FACTORS; XANTHINE OXIDASE; XANTHINES;

EID: 0033257646     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0192415x99000380     Document Type: Article

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