Significance of plasma nitric oxide/endothelial-1 ratio for prediction of coronary artery disease

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-264

  Kurita, Akira ^a,b,c   Matsui, Takemi ^a   Ishizuka, Toshiaki ^a   Takase, Bonpei ^a   Satomura, Kimio ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Sanai Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOTHELIN 1; GLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; NITRIC OXIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PLASMA; PREDICTION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIN-1; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE TEST; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18544380228     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600304     Document Type: Article

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