Increased asymmetric dimethylarginine and enhanced inflammation are associated with impaired vascular reactivity in women with endometriosis

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 784-788

  Kinugasa, Shoko ^a   Shinohara, Koichi ^a   Wakatsuki, Akihiko ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA); Endometriosis; Endothelial dysfunction; Flow mediated vasodilation; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 6; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; SERUM AMYLOID A; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIPIDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UP-REGULATION; VASODILATION;

EID: 82955195436     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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