Effects of red wine polyphenolic compound on the motor activity of normotensive and spontaneous hypertensive rats

Homeostasis in Health and Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 222-224

  Pecháňová, Ol'ga ^a   Horniaková, L'ubica ^a   Zenebe, Woineshet J ^a   Andriantsitohaina, Ramaroson ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Motor activity; Nitric oxide; Red wine polyphenols

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; COUMARIC ACID; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROANTHOCYANIDIN DERIVATIVE; PROVINOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRY POWDER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; RED WINE; SNIFFING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 33748687329     PISSN: 09607560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Aspider, Gironi Carnevale UA, Sergeant JT, Sadile AG: Non-selective attention and nitric oxide in putative animal models of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Behav Res 95: 123-133, 1998.
2. Bernátov Á I, Pecháňová O, Babál P, Kyselá S, Štvrtina S, Andriantsirohaina R. Wine polyphenols improve cardiovascular remodeling and vascular function in NO-deficient hypertension. Am J Physiol 282: H942-948, 2002.
3. Bredt DS, Snyder SH. Isolation of nitric oxide synthetase, a calmodulin-requiring enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87: 682-685, 1990.
4. Hertog MGL, Feskens EJM, Kromhout D: Antioxidant flavonols and coronary heart disease risk: ten year follow-up of the Zutphen elderly study. Lancet 349: 699, 1997.
5. Moncada S, Palmer RMJ, Higgs EA: Nitric oxide: Physiology, Pathophysiology, and pharmacology. Pharmacol Rev 43: 109-142, 1991.
6. Pecháňová O, Bernátová I, Pelouch V, Šimko F. Protein remodelling of the heart in NO-deficient hypertension: the effect of captopril. J Mol Cell Cardiol 29: 3365-3374, 1997.
7. Schuldt EZ, Ckless K, Simas ME, Farias MR, Ribeiro-Do-Valle RM: Butanolic fraction from Cuphea carthagenensis Jacq McBride relaxes rat thoracic aorta through endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent mechanisms. J Cardiovascular Pharmacol 35: 234-239, 2000.
8. Van Den Buuse M, Jong W: Open-field behaviour and blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Clin Exp Hypertens A 10: 667-684, 1988.
9. Wollny T, Aiello L, Di Tommaso D, Bellavia V, Rotilio D, Donati MB, de Gaetano G, Iacoviello L. Modulation of haemostatic function and prevention of experimental thrombosis by red wine in rats: a role for increased nitric oxide production. Br J Pharmacol 127:747-755, 1999.
10. Zenebe W, Pecháňová O: Effect of red wine polyphenolic compounds on the cardiovascular system. Bratisl Lek Listy 103: 159-165, 2002.
11. Zenebe W, Pecháňová O, Andriantsitohaina R: Red wine polyphenols induce vasorelaxation by increased nitric oxide bioactivity. Physiol Res 52:425-432, 2003.