Vitamin C Improves Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation by Restoring Nitric Oxide Activity in Essential Hypertension
- 9 June 1998
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 97 (22), 2222-2229
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.97.22.2222
Abstract
Background—Essential hypertension is associated with impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation. Inactivation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide by oxygen free radicals participates in endothelia...Keywords
This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
- Cyclooxygenase Inhibition Restores Nitric Oxide Activity in Essential HypertensionHypertension, 1997
- Effect of Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase on Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation in Patients With Essential HypertensionHypertension, 1995
- Role of Superoxide in the Depressed Nitric Oxide Production by the Endothelium of Genetically Hypertensive RatsHypertension, 1995
- Role of superoxide anions in the mediation of endothelium-dependent contractions.Hypertension, 1994
- Vasodilation to acetylcholine in primary and secondary forms of human hypertension.Hypertension, 1993
- Endothelium-derived vasoactive factors: II. Endothelium-dependent contraction.Hypertension, 1991
- Thromboxane A2 receptor antagonists inhibit endothelium-dependent contractions.Hypertension, 1990
- Prostaglandin H2 may be the endothelium-derived contracting factor released by acetylcholine in the aorta of the rat.Hypertension, 1990
- Vascular responses to ouabain and norepinephrine in low and normal renin hypertension.Hypertension, 1986
- Endothelium-dependent contractions to acetylcholine in the aorta of the spontaneously hypertensive rat.Hypertension, 1986