Enhanced vascular neuronal nitric-oxide synthase-derived nitric-oxide production underlies the pressor response caused by peripheral N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation in conscious rats

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 342, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 461-471

  McGee, Marie A ^a   Abdel Rahman, Abdel A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 3 AMINO 1 HYDROXY 2 PYRROLIDINONE; HEXAMETHONIUM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; N5 (1 IMINOETHYL) LEVO ORNITHINE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EX VIVO STUDY; GANGLION BLOCK; HEART RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONSCIOUSNESS; GANGLION CYSTS; HEART RATE; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84864145667     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.112.194464     Document Type: Article

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