Taurine regulation of blood pressure and vasoactivity

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 775, Issue , 2013, Pages 407-425

  El Idrissi, Abdeslem ^a   Okeke, Evelyn ^a   Yan, Xin ^a   Sidime, Francoise ^a   Neuwirth, Lorenz S ^a  

^a Fordham University s Graduate School ofEducation in New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; PICROTOXIN; TAURINE; TAURINE TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; AORTA CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RING; ANIMAL; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART RATE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TAURINE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878785900     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6130-2_31     Document Type: Article

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