Repeated thermal therapy upregulates arterial endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression in Syrian golden hamsters

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 434-438

  Ikeda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Biro, Sadatoshi ^a   Kamogawa, Yasuyuki ^a   Yoshifuku, Shiro ^a   Eto, Hideyuki ^a   Orihara, Koji ^a   Kihara, Takashi ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelial function; Gene expression; Nitric oxide; Sauna therapy; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SAUNA; SYRIAN HAMSTER; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CRICETINAE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0035010461     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.65.434     Document Type: Article

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