Relative Contribution of Estrogen Withdrawal and Gonadotropins Increase Secondary to Ovariectomy on Prostaglandin Generation in Mesenteric Microvessels

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-55

  Dantas, Ana Paula V ^a   Franco, Maria Do Carmo P ^a   Tostes, Rita C A ^a   Fortes, Zuleica B ^a   Costa, Sonia Gil ^b   Nigro, Dorothy ^a   Carvalho, Maria Helena C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DE MOGI DAS CRUZES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endothelium derived factors; Female sex hormones; Hypertension; Microcirculation; Prostaglandins

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRADYKININ; DICLOFENAC; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN H1 SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYPERTENSION; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PROSTAGLANDINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; UTERUS;

EID: 0347594035     PISSN: 01602446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005344-200401000-00008     Document Type: Article

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