Pulmonary vasodilator responses to adrenomedullin are reduced by NOS inhibitors in rats but not in cats

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 5 14-5, 1996, Pages

  Nossaman, Bobby Dean ^a   Feng, Chang Jian ^a   Kaye, Alan David ^a   Dewitt, Bracken ^a   Coy, David H ^a   Murphy, William A ^a   Kadowitz, Philip J ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; bradykinin; calcitonin gene related peptide; endothelium; isoproterenol; nitric oxide synthase inhibitor; pulmonary vascular bed

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENOMEDULLIN; AMINO ACID; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOPRENALINE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RAT; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0342577685     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.1996.270.5.l782     Document Type: Article

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