Endothelium-dependent changes in arterial diameter in old normotensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 371-375

  Safar, Me ^a,b   Duriez, M ^a,b   Corman, B ^a,b   Levy, Bi ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Endothelium function; Old normotensive rats

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; POTASSIUM CYANIDE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; RIGIDITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; POISONS; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0034977456     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2001.03462.x     Document Type: Article

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