...Rudolf SCHUBERT; Michael J. MULVANY The myogenic response of small arteries and arterioles has been shown to contribute significantly to autoregulation in different vascular beds. It is characterized by a constriction of the vessel after an increase of transmural pressure and a dilation...

... ORE. Key words: arterioles, calcium, forearm, nitro- prusside, smooth muscle, verapamil. Introduction A number of functional abnormalities have been demonstrated in the resistance vessels of patients with primary hypertension. Studies of the forearm vascular bed have revealed depression of the dilator...

... to the elevation of the peripheral resistance. arterioles forearm hypertension potassium sodium pump © 1984 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1984 23 8 1983 5 10 1983 Clinical Science (1984) 66, 237-239 SHORT COMMUNICATION 237 The dilator response to K...

... Research Society 1983 arterioles autoregulation vascular reactivity 22 11 1982 25 1 1983 Clinical Science (1983) 65,l-8 1 Some aspects of the arterial response to venous occlusion in man M. A. IRELAND, P. DAVIES AND W. A. LITTLER Department of Cardiovascular Medicine...

... responses that were outside the normal range. 4. The abnormal pattern of response observed in the hypertensive group cannot be accounted for by structural changes in the vessels and strongly suggests a functional abnormality of the vascular smooth muscle. Key words: arterioles, forearm, hypertension...

...F. S. Goldby 1. The arteriolar lesions of rats with deoxycorticosterone (DOCA)—salt hypertension have been studied by colloidal carbon injection and light- and electron-microscopy. 2. Colloidal carbon particles enter the media of arterioles to form focal deposits when hypertension develops. 3...