Testosterone increases myogenic reactivity of second-order mesenteric arteries in both defective and normal androgen receptor adult male rats

Gender Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-52

  Toot, Jonathan D ^a   Reho, John J ^a   Novak, Jacqueline ^b   Dunphy, Gail ^a   Ely, Daniel L ^a   Ramirez, Rolando J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b WALSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

androgen receptor; blood pressure; myogenic reactivity; testosterone; TFM

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CASTRATED MALE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE PRESSURE; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79954526466     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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