Changes in coronary resistance related to the stages of the female life cycle

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 478-481

  Fukuhara, Shinji ^a   Matsushita, Shonosuke ^a   Sakakibara, Yuzuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary circulation; eNOS; Estrogen; Female; Maturation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LEVO OMEGA NITROARGININE; OXYGENASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; EFFLUENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; ISOLATED HEART; LIFE CYCLE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORONARY VESSELS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITROARGININE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION;

EID: 33645336324     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.478     Document Type: Article

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