Rapid and Slow Nitric Oxide Responses During Conducted Vasodilation in the In Vivo Intestine and Brain Cortex Microvasculatures

Microcirculation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 623-634

  Glenn Bohlen, H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriole; Brain; Conducted vasodilation; Intestine; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; HEART CONDUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BRAIN; INTESTINES; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASODILATION;

EID: 81855194727     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2011.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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