Quercetin-supplemented diets lower blood pressure and attenuate cardiac hypertrophy in rats with aortic constriction

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 531-541

  Jalili, Thunder ^a,d   Carlstrom, Justin ^a   Kim, Sun ^a   Freeman, David ^c   Jin, Huifeng ^a   Wu, Tzu Ching ^a   Litwin, Sheldon E ^b   David Symons, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d Division of Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiac hypertrophy; Flavonoid; Signal transduction; Vascular function

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN BETA; PROTEIN KINASE C BETA; QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; AORTA CONSTRICTION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; LIPID OXIDATION; MALE; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARDIOMEGALY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIET; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEINS; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SERINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33748139308     PISSN: 01602446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.fjc.0000211746.78454.50     Document Type: Article

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