Long-term Effects of UV Light on Contractility of Rat Arteries In Vivo

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 372-376

  Morimoto, Yuji ^a   Kohyama, Shinya ^a   Nakai, Kanji ^a   Matsuo, Hirotaka ^a   Karasawa, Fujio ^a   Kikuchi, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; RESTENOSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; VASOSPASM;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242331752     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)078<0372:LEOULO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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