Digital vascular responses and serum endothelin-1 concentrations in primary and secondary Raynaud's phenomenon

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 870-874

  Smyrh, A E ^a   Bell, A L ^a   Bruce, I N ^a   McGrann, S ^a   Allen, J A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; VASOSPASM; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLD; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0033768545     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.11.870     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Endothelin receptors: Receptor classification, novel receptor antagonists, and potential therapeutic targets
2. The paracrine endothelin system: Pathophysiology and implications in clinical medicine
3. Endothelin induces potent microvascular constriction
4. Raised endothelin-1 concentration following cold pressor test
5. Significance of plasma endothelin-1 levels in patients with systemic sclerosis
6. Diagnosis of Raynaud's phenomenon assisted by color charts
7. Raynaud's phenomenon: A proposal for classification
8. Scleroderma: Classification, subsets and pathogenesis
9. Mixed connective tissue disease-a decade of growing pains
10. A plethysmograph for the measurement of digital blood flow
11. An objective test for the diagnosis of vasospasm in patients with Raynaud's syndrome
12. Serum endothelin-1 concentrations and cold provocation in primary Raynaud's phenomenon
13. Endothelin, vasoconstriction and endothelial damage in Raynaud's phenomenon
14. Endothelin-1 in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon
15. Endothelin and Raynaud's phenomenon
16. Endothelin, an endothelium-dependent vasoconstrictor in scleroderma
17. A novel potent vasoconstrictor peptide produced by vascular endothelial cells
18. Barriers to xenotransplantation
19. Endothelins: Mechanism of disease
20. Digital vascular responses to cooling in subjects with cold sensitivity, primary Raynaud's phenomenon, or scleroderma spectrum disorders
21. Systemic involvement and immunologic findings in patients presenting with Raynaud's phenomenon