Impaired endothelial function may be due to decreased aortic tetrahydrobiopterin, assessed by a new flow-mediated vasodilation in vivo in hypercholesterolemic/atherogenic mice

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 699-705

  Tamura, Yukinori ^a   Naemura, Aki ^a   Inoue, Ayumi ^a   Ijiri, Yoshinobu ^a   Seki, Junji ^b   Yada, Toyotaka ^c   Goto, Masami ^c   Shinohara, Masakazu ^d   Kawashima, Seinosuke ^d   Giddings, John C ^e   Yamamoto, Junichiro ^a  

^a KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^c KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endothelial function; Flow mediated vasodilation; Nitric oxide; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD FLOW; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEEDING; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID DIET; LOW FAT DIET; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BIOPTERIN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATION;

EID: 70449578619     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBC.0b013e328331fd18     Document Type: Article

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