Replacement of connexin 43 by connexin 32 in a knock-in mice model attenuates aortic endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor-mediated relaxation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1088-1097

  López, Diego ^b   Rodríguez Sinovas, Antonio ^a,b   Agulló, Esperanza ^b   García, Ángeles ^b   Sánchez, Jose A ^b   García Dorado, David ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED HYPERPOLARIZING FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITROPRUSSIDE; NOREPINEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 70349251708     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2009.048413     Document Type: Article

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