Prevention by NCX 4016, a nitric oxide-donating aspirin, but not by aspirin, of the acute endothelial dysfunction induced by exercise in patients with intermittent claudication

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 444-450

  Gresele, Paolo ^a   Migliacci, Rino ^a   Procacci, Alessandra ^a   De Monte, Paola ^a   Bonizzoni, Erminio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flow mediated vasodilation; Intermittent claudication; Ischemia reperfusion injury; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID 3 (NITROXYMETHYL)PHENYL ESTER; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ELASTASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PROPIONYLCARNITINE; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; TACHYCARDIA; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VASODILATATION;

AGED; ASPIRIN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPERFUSION INJURY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1; VASODILATION;

EID: 33947323564     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH06-10-0555     Document Type: Article

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