Acute tetrahydrobiopterin supplementation attenuates sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness in resting and contracting skeletal muscle of healthy rats

Physiological Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Jendzjowsky, Nicholas G ^a   Just, Timothy P ^a   Jones, Kelvin E ^a   DeLorey, Darren S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exercise; Nitric oxide; Sympathetic nervous system; Sympatholysis; Vascular conductance

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; EXERCISE; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; HEART RATE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TRAINING; NONHUMAN; RAT; REST; SCIATIC NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUPPLEMENTATION; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

EID: 85006127244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12164     Document Type: Article

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