Relaxation response of abdominal aorta to androgens in orchidectomised Sprague-Dawley rats fed a high-salt diet

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1647-1651

  Oloyo, Ahmed Kolade ^a   Nair, Renuka R ^b   Anigbogu, Chikodi N ^a   Sofola, Olusoga A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Androgens; High salt diet; Orchidectomy; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM RESTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DIET; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TESTOSTERONE; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84870660399     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: 12057541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/y2012-132     Document Type: Article

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