Inhibitory effects of purified green tea epicatechins on contraction and proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 835-840

  Chen, Z Y ^a   Law, W I ^a   Yao, X Q ^a   Lau, C W ^a   Ho Water Kwok Keung, ^a   Huang, Y ^a  

^a Chinese University of Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arteries; Catechols; Proliferation; Smooth muscle; Tea; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TEA; VASCULAR RING;

ANIMAL; AORTA, THORACIC; CATECHIN; CELL DIVISION; IN VITRO; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEA; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033804724     PISSN: 02539756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Vasorelaxant effects of purified green tea epicatechin derivatives in rat mesenteric artery
2. Involvement of endothelium/nitric oxide in vasorelaxation induced by purified green tea (-)epicatechin
3. Effect of green tea catechins on plasma cholesterol level in cholesterol-fed rats
4. Antioxidative activity of green tea catechins in canola oil
5. Inhibitory effect of green tea polyphenol and morin on the oxidative modification of low-density lipoprotein
6. Inhibitory effect of jasmine green tea epicatechin isomers on LDL-oxidation
7. Regeneration of α-tocopherol in human low-density lipoprotein by green tea catechin
8. Low-density lipoprotein oxidation, antioxidant, and atherosclerosis: A clinical biochemistry perspective
9. Jasmine green tea epicatechins are hypolipidemic in hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) fed a high fat diet
10. The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis: A perspective for the 1990s
11. Inhibition of skin tumor promoter-caused induction of epidermal ornithine decarboxylase in SENCAR mice by polyphenolic fraction isolated from green tea and its individual epicatechin derivatives
12. Inhibitory effects of jasmine green tea epicatechin isomers on free radical-induced lysis of red blood cells
13. Modulation of ion channel activity: A key function of the protein kinase C enzyme family
14. Inhibition by nitric oxide and nitric oxide-producing vasodilators of DNA synthesis in vascular smooth muscle cells