Role of endothelial nitric oxide in cerebrovascular regulation

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1334-1342

  Atochin, Dmitriy N ^a   Huang, Paul L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular regulation; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Mutant mice

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ATORVASTATIN; COMPACTIN; CYCLIC GMP; CYTOCHALASIN D; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; EXOENZYME C3; FASUDIL; HYDROXYFASUDIL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MEVINOLIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PRAVASTATIN; RHO FACTOR; RHO KINASE; SIMVASTATIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPEREMIA; HYPEROXIA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPERFUSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROKE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80052254622     PISSN: 13892010     EISSN: 18734316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920111798280974     Document Type: Article

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