Vitamin C attenuates abnormal vasomotor reactivity in spasm coronary arteries in patients with coronary spastic angina

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-109

  Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a   Motoyama, Takeshi ^a   Hirashima, Osamu ^a   Ohgushi, Masamichi ^a   Soejima, Hirofumi ^a   Misumi, Kenji ^a   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Miyao, Yuji ^a   Yoshimura, Michihiro ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a   Matsumura, Toshiyuki ^a   Sugiyama, Seigo ^a   Yasue, Hirofumi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; OXYGEN RADICAL; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MIXTURE; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 7344235348     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00185-5     Document Type: Article

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