Macro- and microcirculatory effects of tetramethylpyrazine and extract of Charthamus tinctorius L. in rabbit mesentery

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 23, Issue 2-4, 2000, Pages 153-158

  Minamiyama, M ^a   Chang, L G ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NICARDIPINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PLANT EXTRACT; TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MICROCIRCULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; RABBIT; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NICARDIPINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PYRAZINES; RABBITS; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0034455444     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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