l -Arginine Normalizes Coronary Vasomotion in Long-Term Smokers | Zendy

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l -Arginine Normalizes Coronary Vasomotion in Long-Term Smokers

Author(s) -

Roxana Campisi,

Johannes Czernin,

Heiko Schöder,

James W. Sayre,

Heinrich R. Schelbert

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.99.4.491

Subject(s) - medicine , cold pressor test , vasomotion , arginine , blood pressure , endocrinology , coronary circulation , heart rate , blood flow , cardiology , chemistry , biochemistry , amino acid

Noninvasive measurements of myocardial blood flow (MBF) with PET revealed an abnormal coronary vasomotor response to cold pressor test in healthy long-term smokers. If coronary endothelial dysfunction accounted for this abnormality, we hypothesized that it could be reversed by L-arginine as the substrate for NO synthase.

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