Nuciferine relaxes rat mesenteric arteries through endothelium-dependent and -independent mechanisms

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 172, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 5609-5618

  Wang, Xinfeng ^a   Cheang, Wai San ^a   Yang, Haixia ^a,b   Xiao, Lei ^a   Lai, Baochang ^a   Zhang, Meiqian ^a   Ni, Jiahua ^a   Luo, Zhenyu ^a   Zhang, Zihui ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Wang, Nanping ^a,c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1H 1,2,4 OXADIAZOLO[4,3 A]QUINOXALIN 1 ONE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LYSICAMINE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM ION; SERINE; APORPHINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; NUCIFERINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DEPOLARIZATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; VASOCONSTRICTION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; APORPHINES; CALCIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84949530737     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: 14765381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bph.13021     Document Type: Article

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