Skin blood flowmotion and microvascular reactivity investigation in hypercholesterolemic patients without clinically manifest arterial diseases

Physiological Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-47

  Rossi, M ^a   Carpi, A ^a   Di Maria, C ^a   Franzoni, F ^a   Galetta, F ^a   Santoro, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Endothelial function; Flowmotion; Hypercholesterolemia; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Sodium nitroprusside; Spectral Fourier analysis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; FLUOROBENZENE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; ROSUVASTATIN; SULFONAMIDE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FLUOROBENZENES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NITROPRUSSIDE; PYRIMIDINES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SULFONAMIDES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 66549114965     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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