Cigarette smoke upregulates rat coronary artery endothelin receptors in vivo.

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking is a strong cardiovascular risk factor and endothelin (ET) receptors are related to coronary artery diseases. The present study established an in vivo secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure model and investigated the hypothesis that cigarette smoke induces ET receptor upregula...

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Main Authors: Lei Cao, Yaping Zhang, Yong-Xiao Cao, Lars Edvinsson, Cang-Bao Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3296776?pdf=render