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Vasodilative action of carbon monoxide on rat pulmonary artery in vitro

Ding Xueqin, Liu Guiming, Wang Junke, Sheng Zhuoren

Department of Anesthesiology,The First Affiliated Hospital,China Medical University.Shenyang 110001,Liaoning

Abstract

Results suggest the ZnPPIX inhibits ACh induced endothelium-dependent pulmonary artery relaxation and that CO is an endothelium-derived relaxation factor, and exogenous CO can relax pulmonary artery.

Key words: Carbon monoxide;Nitric oxide;Heme oxygenase inhibitor;Vasodilation

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Ding Xueqin, Liu Guiming, Wang Junke, Sheng Zhuoren. Vasodilative action of carbon monoxide on rat pulmonary artery in vitro. Acta Physiol Sin 2002; 54 (1): (in Chinese with English abstract).