Vasorelaxant and antihypertensive effects of formononetin through endothelium-dependent and -independent mechanisms

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1009-1018

  Sun, Tao ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Cao, Yong Xiao ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

arterial rings; blood pressure; formononetin; intracellular Ca 2+ release; nitric oxide; spontaneously hypertensive rats; vasodilatation; voltage dependent Ca 2+ channel

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; FORMONONETIN; LACIDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERTENSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RENAL ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 80051526773     PISSN: 16714083     EISSN: 17457254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aps.2011.51     Document Type: Article

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