Captopril reverses the reduced vasodilator response to bradykinin in hypertensive pregnant rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 756-761

  Resende, Angela De Castro ^a   Pimentel, A M L ^a   Soares De Moura, R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Angiotensin converting enzyme; Bradykinin; Hypertension; Mesenteric arterial bed; Pregnancy; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BRADYKININ; CAPTOPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED HYPERPOLARIZING FACTOR; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; RAT; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; BRADYKININ; CAPTOPRIL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 9344221702     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.04089.x     Document Type: Article

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