Effects of topical nitroglycerine patches and ointment on digital venous plasma nitric oxide concentrations and digital blood flow in healthy conscious horses

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 604-609

  Gilhooly, Meaghan H ^a   Eades, Susan C ^a   Stokes, Ashley M ^a   Moore, Rustin M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital blood flow; Horse; Laminitis; Nitric oxide; Nitroglycerine

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; FOOT DISEASE; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; OINTMENT; RANDOMIZATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FOOT DISEASES; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGLYCERIN; OINTMENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 29144517559     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2005.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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