Microvascular function and ageing: L-arginine, tetrahydrobiopterin and the search for the fountain of vascular youth

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2041-2042

  Heffernan, Kevin S ^a   Vieira, Victoria J ^a   Valentine, Rudy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ARGINASE; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HEME; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; OXYGEN; QUERCETIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SEPIAPTERIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

AGE; AGING; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RISK FACTOR; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARGININE; ARTERIOLES; BIOPTERIN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; VASODILATION;

EID: 42149159975     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.151381     Document Type: Article

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