Downregulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in rat aorta after prolonged hypoxia in vivo

Circulation Research

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 671-675

  Toporsian, Mourad ^a   Govindaraju, Karuthapillai ^a   Nagi, Mohammed ^a   Eidelman, David ^a   Thibault, Gaetan ^b   Ward, Michael E ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Endothelium; Hypoxic vasodilation; Systemic vasculature

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM IONOPHORE; CYCLIC GMP; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLEPHRINE; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0034737826     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.86.6.671     Document Type: Article

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