Urotensin-II activates L-arginine/nitric oxide pathway in isolated rat aortic adventitia

Peptides

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1977-1984

  Lin, Li ^a,c   Ding, Wen Hui ^b   Jiang, Wei ^b   Zhang, Yong Gang ^b   Qi, Yong Fen ^b   Yuan, Wen Jun ^a   Tang, Chao Shu ^b  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adventitia; Nitric oxide; Rat.; Urotensin

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CALCIUM; DACTINOMYCIN; DEXTRO ARGININE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITRITE; UROTENSIN II;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INCUBATION TIME; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; THORACIC AORTA; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; ARGININE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DACTINOMYCIN; ENZYME INDUCTION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; UROTENSINS;

EID: 6344294938     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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