Nebivolol combined with tetrahydrobiopterin affects diastolic function in spontaneously hypertensive rats via the nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate signalling pathway

• Main Authors: Xiaoli Guan (Author), Xiaoying Guan (Author), Changhong Lu (Author), Bo Shang (Author), Yuan Zhao (Author), Ying Meng (Author), Zhengyi Zhang (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background Hypertension is the the primary cause of diastolic heart failure. Oxidative stress plays an important role in cardiac diastolic dysfunction caused by hypertension. The occurrence of oxidative stress is related to the level of nitric oxide (NO) in the body. Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH...