The role of nitric oxide in regulation of the cardiovascular system in reptiles

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-214

  Skovgaard, Nini ^a,b   Galli, Gina ^a,b,c   Abe, Augusto ^a   Taylor, Edwin W ^a,c   Wang, Tobias ^a,b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular; Crotalus; L NAME; Local regulation; Nitric oxide; Python; Reptiles; Trachemys; Varanus

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMODYNAMICS; LIZARD; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; SNAKE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TURTLE;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS; PYTHON (SNAKE); PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; TUPINAMBIS NIGROPUNCTATUS; VARANIDAE; VARANUS;

EID: 26644462856     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.05.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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