Article
Hypotension and reduced nitric oxide-elicited vasorelaxation in transgenic mice overexpressing endothelial nitric oxide synthase.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 15 Dec 1998
Ohashi Y, Kawashima S, Hirata K i, Yamashita T, Ishida T, Inoue N, Sakoda T, Kurihara H, Yazaki Y, Yokoyama M
Abstract excerpt
Nitric oxide (NO), constitutively produced by endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), plays a major role in the regulation of blood pressure and vascular tone. We generated transgenic mice overexpressing bovine eNOS in the vascular wall using murine preproendothelin-1 promoter. In transgenic li...
Topics
- Animals
- Aorta
- Blood Pressure
- Cattle
- Cyclic GMP
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Hypotension
- Immunohistochemistry
- Lung
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muscle Contraction
- Muscle Relaxation