The effect of potassium channel opener pinacidil on the non-pregnant rat uterus

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 181-186

  Novakovic, Radmila ^a   Milovanovic, Slobodan ^b   Protic, Dragana ^a   Djokic, Jelena ^a   Heinle, Helmut ^c   Gojkovic Bukarica, Ljiljana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; OXYTOCIN; PINACIDIL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL STIMULATING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DYSMENORRHEA; ESTRUS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS RELAXATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GLYBURIDE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PINACIDIL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UTERUS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

RATTUS;

EID: 34547903860     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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