Effect of NO synthase inhibition on retinal vessel reaction to isometric exercise in healthy humans

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 362-368

  Lasta, Michael ^a   Polak, Kaija ^a   Luksch, Alexandra ^a   Garhofer, Gerhard ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

autoregulation; isometric exercise; nitric oxide; retinal blood flow

Indexed keywords

N(G) METHYLARGININE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLACEBO;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; VEIN DIAMETER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PHENYLEPHRINE; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 84861583921     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2010.01970.x     Document Type: Article

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