Altered endothelin receptor expression and affinity in spontaneously hypertensive rat cerebral and coronary arteries.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is associated with arterial hyperreactivity, and endothelin (ET) receptors are involved in vascular pathogenesis. The present study was performed to examine the hypothesis that ET receptors were altered in cerebral and coronary arteries of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SH...

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Main Authors: Lei Cao, Yong-Xiao Cao, Cang-Bao Xu, Lars Edvinsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3759417?pdf=render