Tetrahydrobiopterin improves endothelial dysfunction and vascular oxidative stress in microvessels of intrauterine undernourished rats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 558, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 239-248

  Franco, Maria do Carmo P ^a   Fortes, Zuleica B ^a   Akamine, Eliana H ^a   Kawamoto, Elisa M ^a   Scavone, Cristoforo ^a   Giorgetti de Britto, Luiz Roberto ^a   Muscara, Marcelo N ^a   Teixeira, Simone A ^a   Tostes, Rita C A ^a   Carvalho, Maria Helena C ^a   Nigro, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; BRADYKININ; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HYDROETHIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXYNITRITE; SUPEROXIDE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; DEPLETION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; OXIDATION; PROGENY; RELATIVE MULTIPLEX RT PCR; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOPTERIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALORIC RESTRICTION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDES; TYROSINE; UTERUS; VASODILATION;

EID: 4043080518     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.064055     Document Type: Article

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