Adenosine and nitric oxide in exercise-induced human skeletal muscle vasodilatation

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 575-591

  Radegran G ^a   Hellsten, Ylva ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Endothelium; Exercise hyperaemia; Vascular conductance; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADENOSINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ADENOSINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ADENOSINE; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NITRIC OXIDE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATION;

EID: 0034075289     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.2000.00705.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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