Periadventitial fat releases a vascular relaxing factor
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- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 16 (9) , 1057-1063
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.02-0024com
Abstract
Virtually all blood vessels are surrounded by adventitial fat. Adipocytes produce a host of vasoactive substances that may influence vascular contraction. We tested whether or not perivascular adipos...Keywords
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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