Identification of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtype mediating cholinergic vasodilation in murine retinal arterioles

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7479-7484

  Gericke, Adrian ^a   Sniatecki, Jan J ^a   Goloborodko, Evgeny ^a   Steege, Andreas ^b   Zavaritskaya, Olga ^c   Vetter, Jan M ^a   Grus, Franz H ^a   Patzak, Andreas ^d   Wess, Jürgen ^e   Pfeiffer, Norbert ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; BETA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCARINIC M3 RECEPTOR; N (G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBACHOL; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER;

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CELL DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA ARTERY; VASODILATATION; VIDEO MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ARTERIOLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VIDEORECORDING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; CARBACHOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITROPRUSSIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M3; RETINAL ARTERY; RNA, MESSENGER; VASODILATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84856394081     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7370     Document Type: Article

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