Vascular smooth muscle relaxation by a lectin from Pisum arvense: Evidences of endothelial NOS pathway

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1107-1111

  Assreuy, Ana Maria Sampaio ^a   Pinto, Nilson Vieira ^a   Mota, Mário Rogério Lima ^a   Meireles, Ana Vaneska Passos ^a   Cajazeiras, João Batista ^b   Nobre, Camila Bezerra ^b   Soares, Pedro Marcos Gomes ^b,c   Cavada, Benildo Sousa ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Federal University of Ceara ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Pisum arvense; Plant lectin; Relaxant effect

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PISUM ARVENSE LECTIN; PLANT LECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA MEDIA; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; LEGUME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PISUM ARVENSE; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VASCULAR RING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

PISUM SATIVUM; RATTUS;

EID: 80052981934     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611797201011     Document Type: Article

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