Differences between cerebrovascular reactivity to L-arginine in the anterior and posterior cerebral circulation

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 358-364

  Perko, Denis ^a   Pretnar Oblak, Janja ^a   Šabovič, Mišo ^a   Žvan, Bojana ^a   Zaletel, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular reactivity; Endothelium; L Arginine; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARGININE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX FACTORS; SLOVENIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 78651593163     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322562     Document Type: Article

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