Background— Aerobic exercise enhances endothelium-dependent vasodilation in
hypertensive patients, patients with chronic heart failure, and healthy individuals. However, it is …

Background— Patients with limb ischemia were associated with endothelial dysfunction. The
purpose of this study was to determine whether autologous bone-marrow mononuclear cell …

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the circadian
blood pressure (BP) rhythm and endothelial function in patients with essential hypertension…

Background: Both obesity and hypertension are associated with endothelial dysfunction.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a low-calorie diet on endothelial …

Deficiency of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH 4 ), an essential cofactor for nitric oxide (NO) synthase,
decreases NO production and increases reactive oxygen species. The purpose of this study …

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between body mass
index (BMI), including low BMIs, and endothelial function. Background : Epidemiologic study …

Objective— Smoking is associated with endothelial dysfunction and activated Rho-kinase in
vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in humans. The purpose of this study was to …

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an electrophysiological trace of change detection,
measured by electroencephalography (EEG), and is a reliable marker for pre-attentive auditory …

Smoking is associated with endothelial dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to determine
the effect of sildenafil, an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5), on endothelial …

A persistent problem in developing plausible neurophysiological models of perception,
cognition, and action is the difficulty of characterizing the interactions between different neural …