Different mechanisms for testosterone-induced relaxation of aorta between normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1232-1236

  Honda, Hideo ^a   Unemoto, Tamao ^a   Kogo, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Endothelium; Potassium channels; Rats, inbred SHR; Rats, inbred WKY; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; INDOMETACIN; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPERTENSION; INBRED STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RING;

EID: 0033432774     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.34.6.1232     Document Type: Article

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