© 2000 by European Society of Cardiology
Copyright © 2000, European Society of Cardiology
Chloride ions and the endothelium: their role in adrenoceptor-mediated vasoconstriction
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6NT, UK
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Received 13 September 2000; accepted 27 September 2000
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See article by Tabrizchi and Duggan [1] (pages 393–401) in this issue.
This report by Tabrizchi and Duggan [1] represents another link in the continuing effort to evaluate factors involved in the regulation of vascular tone. Much of the early work in this regard focussed on the findings by Furchgott and Zawadski [2] that endothelial derived relaxing factor (EDRF) is responsible for acetylcholine-induced vasodilation and the later independent reports of Ignarro and Moncada identifying EDRF as nitric oxide (NO) [3–4]. This led to a huge wealth of information drawn from in vitro and in vivo studies correlating