Dietary antioxidants preserve endothelium dependent vasorelaxation in overfed rats

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 327-333

  Sato, Junichi ^a   O'Brien, Timothy ^a,c   Katusic, Zvonimir S ^b   Fu, Aizhong ^a   Nygren, Jonas ^a   Singh, Ravinder ^a   Nair, K Sreekumaran ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dilation; Endothelial function; Free radicals; Nitric oxide; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; NONHUMAN; OVERNUTRITION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VASODILATATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIET, ATHEROGENIC; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SELENIUM; VASODILATION; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0036121233     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(01)00649-9     Document Type: Article

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