Comparative effects of tramadol on vascular reactivity in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1197-1203

  Raimundo, Juliana M ^a   Pontes, Luana B ^a   Antunes, Fernanda ^b   Sudo, Roberto T ^a   Trachez, Margarete M ^c   Zapata Sudo, Gisele ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Norte Fluminense University   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Tramadol; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; NALOXONE; NICARDIPINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TETRYLAMMONIUM; TRAMADOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; IC 50; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RING; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; TRAMADOL; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 50649109827     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2008.04979.x     Document Type: Article

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