Ginkgo biloba extract-induced relaxation of rat aorta is associated with increase in endothelial intracellular calcium level.

@article{Kubota2001GinkgoBE,
  title={Ginkgo biloba extract-induced relaxation of rat aorta is associated with increase in endothelial intracellular calcium level.},
  author={Y. Kubota and N. Tanaka and K. Umegaki and H. Takenaka and H. Mizuno and K. Nakamura and K. Shinozuka and M. Kunitomo},
  journal={Life sciences},
  year={2001},
  volume={69 20},
  pages={
          2327-36
        }
}
Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE) has been used clinically for improving peripheral vascular diseases in France and Germany. In the present study, to clarify the pharmacological properties of vasodilation produced by GBE, we examined the effect of GBE and quercetin, one of the ingredients in GBE, on the thoracic aorta isolated from Wistar rats. GBE produced a dose-dependent relaxation in the aortic ring precontracted with noradrenaline, and the relaxation was abolished by L-N(G)-nitro arginine methyl… Expand
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