Effect of acute and chronic ascorbic acid on flow-mediated dilatation with sedentary and physically active human ageing

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 556, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 315-324

  Eskurza, Iratxe ^a   Monahan, Kevin D ^a   Robinson, Jed A ^a   Seals, Douglas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR DISEASE; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; VASODILATATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRACHIAL ARTERY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 1942438660     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.057042     Document Type: Article

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