Effect of endogenous and exogenous nitric oxide on calcium sparks as targets for vasodilation in rat cerebral artery

Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-109

  Mandalà, Maurizio ^a   Heppner, Thomas J ^b   Bonev, Adrian D ^b   Nelson, Mark T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium sparks; Cerebral arteries; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; N (2 AMINOETHYL) N (2 HYDROXY 2 NITROSOHYDRAZINO) 1,2 ETHYLENEDIAMINE; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RYANODINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LASER MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RATS; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; VASODILATION;

EID: 33751405988     PISSN: 10898603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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