Circulating sex hormones modulate vascular contractions and acute response to 17β-estradiol in rat mesenteric arteries

Pharmacology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 55-64

  Keung, Wendy ^a,b   Man, Ricky Y K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Contraction; Estrogen receptor; Nongenomic vascular effects; Rat mesenteric arteries; Testosterone; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PHENYLEPHRINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; ISOMETRICS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHENYLEPHRINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 79960689744     PISSN: 00317012     EISSN: 14230313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329426     Document Type: Article

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