Ageing is associated with impairment of nitric oxide and prostanoid dilator pathways in the human forearm

Clinical Science

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 595-600

  Singh, Nivedita ^a   Prasad, Sanjay ^a   Singer, Donald R J ^a   MacAllister, Raymond J ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Endothelium

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NORADRENALIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PROSTANOID; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN METABOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGING; ASPIRIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROSTAGLANDINS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATION;

EID: 0036257720     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20010262     Document Type: Article

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