Associations between systemic and cerebral endothelial impairment determined by cerebrovascular reactivity to L-arginine

Endothelium: Journal of Endothelial Cell Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-80

  Pretnar Oblak, Janja ^a   Sabovic, Miso ^a   Zaletel, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular Reactivity; Endothelium; Flow Mediated Dilatation; Intima Media Thickness; L Arginine; Lacunar Infarction

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ARGININE; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34548387049     PISSN: 10623329     EISSN: 10292373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10623320701346692     Document Type: Article

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