The assessment of endothelial function in humans

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 445-454

  Farouque, H M Omar ^a   Meredith, Ian T ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Endothelium; Flow mediated dilatation; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; PADGEM PROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; THROMBOMODULIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034764029     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200109000-00003     Document Type: Review

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