Effects of neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibition on microvascular and contractile function in skeletal muscle of aged rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hirai, Daniel M ^a   Copp, Steven W ^a   Holdsworth, Clark T ^a   Ferguson, Scott K ^a   Musch, Timothy I ^a   Poole, David C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood flow; Force; Oxygen uptake; S methyl L thiocitrulline

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; S METHYLTHIOCITRULLINE;

AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYPOTHESIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGENATION; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEADY STATE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; CITRULLINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THIOUREA; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84867724079     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00477.2012     Document Type: Article

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