Salt-induced hypertension in rats alters the response of isolated aortic rings to cromakalim

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-21

  Obiefuna, P C M ^a   Obiefuna, I P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CROMAKALIM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERTENSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SALT INTAKE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; AORTA; CROMAKALIM; HYPERTENSION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0035288377     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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