Do incremental increases in blood pressure elicit neointimal plaques through endothelial injury?

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 287, Issue 6 56-6, 2004, Pages

  Ruiz Feria, Ciro A ^a,b   Yang, Yimu ^a   Nishimura, Hiroko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arginine supplement; Atherosclerosis; Endothelial dysfunction; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase uncoupling; Fowl model; Hypertension; Nitric oxide; Pulse pressure

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DRINKING WATER; NITRIC OXIDE; PROPRANOLOL DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MINIPUMP; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SEXUAL MATURATION; THICKNESS; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ARGININE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PROPRANOLOL; SOLVENTS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 8844244680     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00178.2003     Document Type: Article

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