Impact of sex and age on coronary basal tone

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 354-355

  Zhao, Yingjun ^a   Fukumoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Mohri, Masahiro ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a   Takeshita, Akira ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Coronary tone; Sex

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ESTROGEN; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPICARDIUM; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROVOCATION TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ESTROGENS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 18644381893     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.354     Document Type: Article

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