Inhibitory effects of verapamil and nitroglycerin on contraction and cytosolic Ca2+ levels in cerebrovascular smooth muscle during chronic cerebral vasospasm

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 238-244

  Tanaka, Y ^a   Masuzawa, T ^a   Saito, M ^a   Yamada, T ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasospasm; Cytosolic Ca2+ level; fura 2; Nitroglycerin; Thromboxane A2; Verapamil

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM ION; FURA 2; FURA 2 ACETOXYMETHYL ESTER; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; POTASSIUM ION; THROMBOXANE A2; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOSOL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITROGLYCERIN; POTASSIUM; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0035011335     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.41.238     Document Type: Article

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