Pulmonary Vascular Responses to Ma Huang Extract

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 727-733

  Fields, Aaron M ^a   Kaye, Alan D ^a   Richards, Todd A ^a   Ibrahim, Ikhlass N ^a   Heavner, James E ^a   Dewitt, Bracken J ^a   Bayer, Erin Z ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; EPHEDRA EXTRACT; NORADRENALIN; PHENTOLAMINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PRAZOSIN; THROMBOXANE A2; THROMBOXANE A2 RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EPHEDRA SINICA; FEMALE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; TIME; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0242580899     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107555303322524571     Document Type: Article

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