The cerebrocortical microcirculatory effect of nitric oxide synthase blockade is dependent upon baseline red blood cell flow in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 65-68

  Lacza, Zsombor ^a   Erdos, Benedek ^a   Görlach, Christoph ^b   Wahl, Michael ^b   Sándor, Péter ^a   Benyó, Zoltán ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral cortex; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Microcirculation; Nitric oxide; Rat; Vasomotion

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ERYTHROCYTES; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0034666309     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01341-0     Document Type: Article

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