Letter to the editor: "Is menthol- or icilin-induced vasodilation mediated by the activation of TRPM8?"

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ma, Shuangtao ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MENTHOL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL MELASTATIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COLD; COOLING; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MENTHOL; PYRIMIDINONES; TRPM CATION CHANNELS; VASODILATION;

EID: 68049106374     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00460.2009     Document Type: Letter

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