Effect of Choto-san, a Kampo medicine, on the cerebral blood flow autoregulation in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Japanese Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-142

  Sugimoto, Akira ^a,b   Goto, Kazuhiro ^b   Ishige, Atsushi ^b   Komatsu, Yasuhiro ^b   Miyamoto, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSUMURA AND CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow autoregulation; Choto san; Nitric oxide; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Uncariae Ramulus et Uncus

Indexed keywords

CHOTO-SAN; KAMPO; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITROPRUSSIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0033917830     PISSN: 00215198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1254/jjp.83.135     Document Type: Article

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