Role of myoendothelial communication on arterial vasomotion

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Bény, Jean Louis ^a   Koenigsberger, Michèle ^b   Sauser, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

CELL COMMUNICATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNEXINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 33751196384     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00709.2006     Document Type: Editorial

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