Testosterone reduces vascular relaxation by altering cyclic adenosine monophosphate pathway and potassium channel activation in male Sprague Dawley rats fed a high-salt diet

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 75-85

  Oloyo, Ahmed K ^a   Sofola, Olusoga A ^a   Anigbogu, Chikodi N ^a   Nair, Renuka R ^b   Vijayakumar, Harikrishnan S ^b   Fernandez, Adelaide C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

adenylyl cyclase; blood pressure; diazoxide; forskolin; hypertension; nucleotides; orchidectomy; vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; ENZYME ACTIVATOR; TESTOSTERONE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLISM; ORCHIECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SALT INTAKE; SECOND MESSENGER; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; VASODILATATION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; AORTA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CYCLIC AMP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HYPERTENSION; KATP CHANNELS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84885606725     PISSN: 17539447     EISSN: 17539455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753944713479996     Document Type: Article

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