17β-Estradiol Attenuates Acetylcholine-Induced Coronary Arterial Constriction in Women but Not Men With Coronary Heart Disease

The obligatory role of endothelial cells in the relaxation of arterial smooth muscle by acetylcholine

1980 • 12,033 citations

Nitric oxide release accounts for the biological activity of endothelium-derived relaxing factor

1987 • 10,774 citations

Some statistical methods useful in circulation research.

1980 • 3,978 citations

Paradoxical Vasoconstriction Induced by Acetylcholine in Atherosclerotic Coronary Arteries

1986 • 2,422 citations

Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease

1991 • 2,008 citations

Cardiovascular mortality and noncontraceptive use of estrogen in women: results from the Lipid Research Clinics Program Follow-up Study.

1987 • 1,379 citations

Estrogen and Coronary Heart Disease in Women

1991 • 1,237 citations

Menopause and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women

1987 • 1,137 citations

Induction of calcium-dependent nitric oxide synthases by sex hormones.

1994 • 1,074 citations

Impaired vasodilation of forearm resistance vessels in hypercholesterolemic humans.

1990 • 1,020 citations

Vasorelaxant properties of the endothelium-derived relaxing factor more closely resemble S-nitrosocysteine than nitric oxide

1990 • 996 citations

Estrogen modulates responses of atherosclerotic coronary arteries.

1990 • 605 citations

Inhibition of coronary artery atherosclerosis by 17-beta estradiol in ovariectomized monkeys. Lack of an effect of added progesterone.

1990 • 603 citations

The Effect of Atherosclerosis on the Vasomotor Response of Coronary Arteries to Mental Stress

1991 • 602 citations

Evidence of Impaired Endothelium-Dependent Coronary Vasodilatation in Patients with Angina Pectoris and Normal Coronary Angiograms

1993 • 567 citations

Effects of physiological levels of estrogen on coronary vasomotor function in postmenopausal women.

1994 • 543 citations

Ethinyl estradiol acutely attenuates abnormal coronary vasomotor responses to acetylcholine in postmenopausal women.

1994 • 540 citations

Diet-induced atherosclerosis increases the release of nitrogen oxides from rabbit aorta.

1990 • 527 citations

Basal release of nitric oxide from aortic rings is greater in female rabbits than in male rabbits: implications for atherosclerosis.

1992 • 479 citations

Beneficial effect of oestrogen on exercise-induced myocardial ischaemia in women with coronary artery disease

1993 • 430 citations

Effects of age on endothelium-dependent vasodilation of resistance coronary artery by acetylcholine in humans.

1993 • 397 citations

Short-term administration of estrogen and vascular responce of atherosclerotic coronary arteries

1992 • 364 citations

Endothelium‐independent relaxation of rabbit coronary artery by 17β‐oestradiol in vitro

1991 • 353 citations

Postmenopausal Estrogen Use and Coronary Atherosclerosis

1988 • 335 citations

Postmenopausal use of estrogen and occlusion of coronary arteries

1988 • 332 citations

Sex, plasma lipoproteins, and atherosclerosis: Prevailing assumptions and outstanding questions

1987 • 328 citations

Influence of Sex Hormones on Plasma Endothelin Levels

1993 • 328 citations

Effect of 17 beta-estradiol on endothelium-dependent responses in the rabbit.

1988 • 320 citations

Oxidized low density lipoproteins cause contraction and inhibit endothelium-dependent relaxation in the pig coronary artery.

1990 • 312 citations

Estrogen-induced uterine vasodilatation is antagonized by L-nitroarginine methyl ester, an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis

1992 • 312 citations

Cardiovascular protection by oestrogen—a calcium antagonist effect?

1993 • 266 citations

Local and systemic estradiol-17 beta: effects on uterine and systemic vasodilation

1989 • 254 citations

Effect of 17β‐oestradiol on contraction, Ca²⁺ current and intracellular free Ca²⁺ in guinea‐pig isolated cardiac myocytes

1992 • 244 citations

Cholesterol, lipoproteins, and coronary heart disease in women.

1988 • 228 citations

Patients with evidence of coronary endothelial dysfunction as assessed by acetylcholine infusion demonstrate marked increase in sensitivity to constrictor effects of catecholamines.

1992 • 214 citations

Estrogen acutely increases peripheral blood flow in postmenopausal women

1995 • 180 citations

Ovarian hormones and the circulation

1990 • 170 citations

Acute effect of 17 beta-estradiol on rabbit coronary artery contractile responses to endothelin-1

1992 • 170 citations

Nitric oxide accounts for dose-dependent estrogen-mediated coronary relaxation after acute estrogen withdrawal.

1994 • 169 citations

Circulating and tissue endothelin immunoreactivity in hypercholesterolemic pigs.

1993 • 161 citations

Inhibitory effect of female hormones on lipid peroxidation.

1986 • 87 citations

The effects of postmenopausal estrogen therapy on the incidence of arteriosclerotic vascular disease

1989 • 71 citations

Hemoglobin inhibits endothelium-dependent relaxation to acetylcholine in human coronary arteries in vivo.

1993 • 66 citations

Effects of intracoronary injection of acetylcholine on coronary arterial hemodynamics and diameter

1988 • 48 citations