Endothelial function and nitric oxide: Clinical relevance

Heart

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 342-350

  Vallance, P ^a   Chan, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYL NITRATE; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; GLYCEROL NITRATE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MOLSIDOMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

ARGININE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0034758378     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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3. Endothelium-derived relaxing factor produced and released from artery and vein is nitric oxide
4. The L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway
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