Chronic estradiol-17β exposure increases superoxide production in the rostral ventrolateral medulla and causes hypertension: Reversal by resveratrol

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1560-1568

  Subramanian, Madhan ^a   Balasubramanian, Priya ^a   Garver, Hannah ^a   Northcott, Carrie ^a   Zhao, Huawei ^a   Haywood, Joseph R ^a   Fink, Gregory D ^a   MohanKumar, Sheba M J ^a   Mohankumar, P S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brain stem; Estrogen; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; OXYGEN; RESVERATROL; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STILBENES; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 79958811042     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00020.2011     Document Type: Article

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