Nitrite reduction to nitric oxide in the vasculature

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lundberg, Jon O ^a   Weitzberg, Eddie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; CELL RECEPTOR; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEMOPROTEIN; SOLUBLE GUANYLYL CYCLASE;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART OUTPUT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR RING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOTE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; THORACIC AORTA;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 52449089986     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00611.2008     Document Type: Editorial

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