Effect of the AT1 receptor antagonist losartan on diurnal variation in pain threshold in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 663-668

  Pechlivanova, Daniela Marinova ^a   Markova, P P ^a   Stoynev, A G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; LOSARTAN; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; METABOLISM; PAIN THRESHOLD; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LOSARTAN; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1;

EID: 79954558666     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2010.32.9.1529826     Document Type: Article

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