Cellular mechanisms of nitric oxide-induced relaxation of corporeal smooth muscle in the guinea-pig

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 538, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 573-581

  Hashitani, Hikaru ^a   Fukuta, Hiroyasu ^a   Dickens, Emma J ^b   Suzuki, Hikaru ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1H 1,2,4 OXADIAZOLO[4,3 A]QUINOXALIN 1 ONE; 8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; CALCIUM ION; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE INHIBITOR; LINSIDOMINE; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM; CYCLIC GMP;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; GUINEA PIG; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE RELAXATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GUINEA PIGS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLSIDOMINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PENIS; POTASSIUM; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 0037082227     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.013049     Document Type: Article

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