Vasorelaxant effects of the monoterpenic phenol isomers, carvacrol and thymol, on rat isolated aorta: ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-350

  Peixoto Neves, D ^a   Silva Alves, K S ^a   Gomes, M D M ^a   Lima, F C ^a   Lahlou, S ^a   Magalhaes P J C ^b   Ceccatto, V M ^a   Coelho De Souza, A N ^a   Leal Cardoso, J H ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carvacrol; Excitation contraction coupling; Isolated aorta; Thymol; Vasorelaxant

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; CARVACROL; EGTAZIC ACID; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHORBOL DIBUTYRATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN KINASE C; THAPSIGARGIN; THYMOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; IC 50; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; MONOTERPENES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHENOLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEREOISOMERISM; THYMOL; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 77952566778     PISSN: 07673981     EISSN: 14728206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-8206.2009.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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