The effect of cyclic GMP on rabbit corporal smooth muscle tone and its modulation by cyclo-oxygenase products

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 153-160

  Minhas, S ^a   Eardley, I ^a   Joyce, A D ^a   Morrison, J B F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 ANILINO 5,8 QUINOLINEQUINONE; ACETYLCHOLINE; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED CONSTRICTING FACTOR; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE INHIBITOR; INDOMETACIN; METHYLENE BLUE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PHENTOLAMINE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTANOID; PYROGALLOL; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ENZYME REGULATION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0034126865     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/plef.2000.0135     Document Type: Article

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