Effects of cadmium in vitro on contractile and relaxant responses of isolated rat aortas

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 251-256

  Takahashi, Yuji ^a   Poteser, Michael ^a   Masui, Hidehisa ^b   Koizumi, Naoko ^b   Wakabayashi, Ichiro ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium intoxication; Vascular endothelium; Vascular smooth muscle; Vasoconstriction; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PREMEDICATION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 10044273898     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.9.251     Document Type: Article

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