Mysteries in the local control of blood flow: A Physiological whodunit involving red cell release of ATP?

Circulation Research

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-157

  Chilian, William M ^a   Yin, Liya ^a   Ohanyan, Vahagn A ^a  

^a Northeast Ohio Medical University   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP; blood flow; Editorials; red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEOXYGENATION; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPOXEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; ISCHEMIA; LUNG; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VASODILATATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 84863645037     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.273060     Document Type: Editorial

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