Nitric Oxide Donor Sodium Nitroprusside Dilates Rat Small Arteries by Activation of Inward Rectifier Potassium Channels

Hypertension

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 891-896

  Schubert, Rudolf ^a   Krien, Ulrike ^a   Wulfsen, Iris ^b   Schiemann, Dorrit ^b   Lehmann, Gernot ^a   Ulfig, Norbert ^a   Veh, Ruediger W ^c   Schwarz, Jürgen R ^b   Gagov, Hristo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Arteries; Ions; Nitric oxide; Potassium channels; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ION; CYANIDE; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM ION; SCAVENGER; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT TAIL ARTERY; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; TAIL; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; THIOSULFATES; TUNICA MEDIA; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 1642419548     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000121882.42731.6b     Document Type: Article

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