Cardiovascular responses of eggs, embryos and alevins of atlantic salmon and rainbow trout to nitric oxide donors, sodium nitroprusside and isosorbide dinitrate, and inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase, N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and aminoguanidine, following short- and long-term exposure

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL. A, 1999, Pages 119-127

  Eddy, F B ^a   McGovern, L ^a   Acock, N ^a   McGeer, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alevins; Aminoguanidine; Atlantic salmon; Eggs; Heart rate; L NAME; Long term exposure; Nitric oxide; NO receptors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033370910     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1999.1056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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