Atherosclerosis impairs endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation to acetylcholine and thrombin in primates.

To test the hypothesis that atherosclerosis impairs endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation, we examined the effect of the endothelium-dependent vasodilators acetylcholine and thrombin and the endothelium-independent vasodilator nitroglycerin on iliac arteries from normal cynomolgus monkeys and cy... View More