Phasic contractions of rat mesenteric lymphatics increase basal and phasic nitric oxide generation in vivo
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Phasic contractions of rat mesenteric lymphatics increase basal and phasic nitric oxide generation in vivo.
Multiple investigators have shown interdependence of lymphatic contractions on nitric oxide (NO) activity by pharmacological and traumatic suppression of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS). We demonstrated that lymphatic diastolic relaxation is particularly sensitive to NO from the lymphatic endothelium. The predicted mechanism is shear forces produced by the lymph flow during phasic pumping, activ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0363-6135,1522-1539
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00039.2009