Generation of nitric oxide from nitrite by carbonic anhydrase: A possible link between metabolic activity and vasodilation

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Aamand, Rasmus ^a   Dalsgaard, Thomas ^a   Jensen, Frank B ^b   Simonsen, Ulf ^a   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a   Fago, Angela ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acetazolamide; Acidosis; Dorzolamide; Neurovascular coupling

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; DORZOLAMIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDRATION; HYPOXIA; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; BICARBONATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM NITRITE; SULFONAMIDES; THIOPHENES; VASODILATION;

EID: 72249108763     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00525.2009     Document Type: Article

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