Alteration in α- and β-adrenoceptor profile of rabbit knee joint blood vessels due to acute inflammation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 267-273

  Najafipour, Hamid ^a  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CLONIDINE; DOBUTAMINE; ISOPRENALINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PRAZOSIN; PROPRANOLOL; SALBUTAMOL; YOHIMBINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATION; JOINT CAPSULE; KNEE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0034070358     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.2000.01967.x     Document Type: Article

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