Oestrogen increases myocardial blood flow in men: assessment by n-ammonia positron emission tomography

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 557-562

  Yoshioka, Jun ^a   Hasegawa, Shinji ^a   Node, Koichi ^a   Nakatani, Daisaku ^a   Kitakaze, Masafumi ^a   Hori, Masatsugu ^a   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catecholamine; Coronary microcirculation; Healthy volunteers; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ESTROGEN; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AMMONIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; NITROUS OXIDE; NOREPINEPHRINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; VASODILATION;

EID: 2542582258     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000126624.79048.70     Document Type: Article

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