Contractility of resistance arteries of spontaneously hypertensive rats related to their media:lumen ratio

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1223-1231

  Bund, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Media:lumen ratio; Myogenic tone; Resistance arteries; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Vascular contractility; Vascular structure; Wistar Kyoto rat

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; THROMBOXANE A2 DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033816779     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200018090-00008     Document Type: Article

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