Endothelial nitric oxide is not involved in circadian rhythm generation of blood pressure: Experiments in wild-type C57 and eNOS knock-out mice under light-dark and free-run conditions

Chronobiology International

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1231-1240

  Arraj, M ^a   Lemmer, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C57BL 6 mice; Circadian rhythms; Diastolic blood pressure; eNOS knock out mice; Free run DD; Light dark cycle LD; Systolic blood pressure; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERTENSION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SENSOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DIASTOLE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; SYSTOLE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 37149025939     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07420520701795357     Document Type: Article

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