Estrogen selectively up-regulates eNOS and nNOS in reproductive arteries by transcriptional mechanisms

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 205-215

  Rosenfeld, Charles R ^a   Chen, Cui ^a   Roy, Tim ^a   Liu, Xiao Tie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Mammary artery; Mesenteric artery; Uterine artery; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN;

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; DOSE CALCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FREEZING; HORMONE ACTION; MAMMARY ARTERY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UPREGULATION; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS;

EID: 0038240079     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(03)00049-2     Document Type: Article

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