Gender differences in sensitivity to adrenergic agonists of forearm resistance vasculature

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1233-1238

  Kneale, Barry J ^a   Chowienczyk, Philip J ^a   Brett, Sally E ^a   Coltart, D John ^a   Ritter, James M ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ARGININE; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; PROPRANOLOL; SALBUTAMOL SULFATE; SUBSTANCE P; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ALBUTEROL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROPRANOLOL; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-2; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBSTANCE P; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0033809769     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00849-4     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Neurotransmission: The autonomic and somatic motor nervous systems
2. Effects of inhibition of the L-arginine/nitric oxide pathway on vasodilation caused by β-adrenergic agonists in human forearm
3. Forearm β-adrenergic receptor-mediated vasodilation is impaired, without alteration of forearm norepinephrine spillover, in borderline hypertension
4. Vasoconstrictor sensitivity to noradrenaline and N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine in men and women
5. Incidence and prognosis of myocardial infarction in women. The Framingham Study
6. Patterns of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in the sexes: A 26-year follow-up of the Framingham population
7. Sex differences in cardiac arrest survivors
8. Gender considerations in hypertension pathophysiology and treatment
9. Risk factors and the sex differential in coronary artery disease
10. Why is diabetes mellitus a stronger risk factor for fatal ischemic heart disease in women than in men?
11. Increased vascular catecholamine sensitivity and α-adrenergic receptor affinity in female and estrogen-treated male rats
12. Influence of gender on vascular reactivity in the rat
13. Alpha-adrenergic responses of blood vessels of rabbits after ovariectomy and administration of 17β-estradiol
14. Effect of pregnancy on endothelium and smooth muscle: Their role in reduced adrenergic sensitivity
15. Endothelium-dependent gender differences in the response of the rat aorta
16. Estrogen supplementation decreases norepinephrine-induced vasoconstrictton and total body norepinephrine spillover in perimenopausal women
17. Estrogen enhances basal nitric oxide release in the forearm vasculature in perimenopausal women
18. Role of endothelium in responses of vascular smooth muscle
19. Metabolic activation of sodium nitoprusside to nitric oxide in vascular smooth muscle
20. Calcium channel diversity in the cardiovascular system
21. The measurement of volume changes in human limbs
22. An electrically calibrated plethysmograph for direct measurement of limb blood flow
23. How reproducible is bilateral forearm plethysmography?
24. Analysis of serial measurements in medical research
25. Sex differences in hypokalemic and electrocardiographic effects of inhaled terbutaline
26. Sex differences in peripheral vascular adrenergic receptors
27. β-Adrenergic vasodilator mechanism in the finger
28. Lack of correlation between arterial and venous beta-adrenergic receptor sensitivity
29. A quantitative study of the response to acetylcholine and histamine of the blood vessels of the human hand and forearm
30. Blood flow responses to intraarterial acetylcholine in man: Effects of basal flow and conduit vessel length
31. Albuterol
32. The sympathetic system in hypertension
33. Assessment of responses to drugs in forearm resistance vessels and hand veins of man: Techniques and problems
34. Vasodilation in black Americans: Attenuated nitric oxide-mediated responses
35. Endothelium-removal decreases relaxations of canine coronary arteries caused by β-adrenergic agonists and adenosine
36. Involvement of endothelial cells in relaxation and contraction responses of the aorta to isoproterenol in naive and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
37. Novel signal transduction pathway mediating endothelium-dependent β-adrenoceptor vasorelaxation in rat thoracic aorta
38. β-Adrenoceptor agonist mediated relaxation of rat isolated resistance arteries: A role for the endothelium and nitric oxide
39. Noradrenaline, β-adrenoceptor mediated vasorelaxation and nitric oxide in large and small pulmonary arteries of the rat
40. 2-adrenoceptors in human umbilical vein endothelium in vitro
41. β-Adrenoceptors on endothelial cells do not influence release of relaxing factor in dog coronary arteries
42. Development and mechanism of a specific supersensitivity to nitrovasodilators after inhibition of vascular nitric oxide synthesis in vivo
43. Lack of importance of NO in β-adrenoceptor mediated relaxation of large epicardial canine coronary arteries
44. Decreased vasodilator response to isoproterenol during nitric oxide inhibition in humans
45. Influence of sex-steroid hormones on the regulation of lymphocyte β2-adrenoceptors during the menstrual cycle
46. The effects of menstrual cycle, race and gender on adrenergic receptors and agonists
47. Effect on forearm arteries and veins of attenuation of the cardiac response to leg exercise
48. Attenuation of isoproterenol-mediated vasodilatation in blacks