Does Nitric Oxide Mediate the Vasodilator Activity of Nitroglycerin?
- 31 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation Research
- Vol. 93 (9) , e104-12
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.0000100067.62876.50
Abstract
Nitroglycerin (glyceryl trinitrate, GTN) relaxes blood vessels primarily via activation of the soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC)/cGMP/cGMP-dependent protein kinase (cGK-I) pathway. Although the precis...Keywords
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