Effects of sex hormone levels on aortic vascular reactivity and variables associated with the metabolic syndrome in sucrose-fed female rats

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 25-35

  Pérez Torres, Israel ^a   El Hafidi, Mohammed ^a   Infante, Oscar ^a   Baños, Guadalupe ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Metabolic syndrome in sucrose fed female rats; Sex hormones; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; INDOMETACIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; SUCROSE; TESTOSTERONE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD STORAGE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; INDOMETHACIN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCROSE; TRIGLYCERIDES; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 39549117398     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Y07-113     Document Type: Article

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