Potassium Potently Relaxes Small Rat Skeletal Muscle Arteries

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2005-2012

  De Clerck, Ine ^a   Boussery, Koen ^a   Pannier, Jean Louis ^a   Van De Voorde, Johan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Exercise hyperemia; Inward rectifier k+ channels; Metabolic vasodilatation; Na+ K+ pump; Potassium; Rat gluteal artery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); BARIUM ION; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED HYPERPOLARIZING FACTOR; NORADRENALIN; OUABAIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HYPEREMIA; ISOLATED ARTERY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0345097651     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000099101.39139.FA     Document Type: Article

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