Carbon monoxide as an endogenous vascular modulator

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Leffler, Charles W ^a   Parfenova, Helena ^a   Jaggar, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Gasotransmitter; Heme oxygenase; Potassium channels; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOADIPIC ACID; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; BILIVERDIN; BRADYKININ; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 32; HEME OXYGENASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HEME OXYGENASE 2; ILOPROST; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROTOPORPHYRIN COBALT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PROTECTION; CAROTID BODY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REGULATION; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEIZURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STROKE; UPREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HEME OXYGENASE-1; HUMANS; VASODILATION;

EID: 79959870281     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00230.2011     Document Type: Article

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