Crowding-induced alterations in vascular system of wistar-kyoto rats: Role of nitric oxide

Physiological Research

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 667-669

  Bernatova I ^a   Puzserova A ^a   Navarova J ^c   Csizmadiova Z ^a,b   Zeman, M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Corticosterone; Social stress; Vasorelaxation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CORTICOSTERONE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL; CROWDING; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MESENTERIC ARTERY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; VASODILATATION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; CORTICOSTERONE; CROWDING; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 36849070462     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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