The novel peptide apelin lowers blood pressure via a nitric oxide-dependent mechanism

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 99, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 87-92

  Tatemoto, Kazuhiko ^a   Takayama, Kiyoshige ^a   Zou, Min Xu ^a   Kumaki, Iku ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Kumano, Kimitsuka ^b   Fujimiya, Mineko ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apelin; APJ; Blood pressure; Endothelial NO synthase; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

APELIN 12 PROTEIN; APELIN 13 PROTEIN; APELIN 36 PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITRITE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KUPFFER CELL; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIGANDS; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

EID: 0035876612     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(01)00236-1     Document Type: Article

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