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Studies focusing on specific components of the blood vessel wall have yielded an important secret of how the “microenvironment” can control large and small artery diameter. As a result of the now classic discovery of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) by Furchgott and Zawad-zki (1980), any discussion of the physiology or pathology of vascular reactivity must consider the integrity and function of the cells lining the intimal surface.
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Angus, J.A., Cocks, T.M., Wright, C.E., Satoh, K., Campbell, G.R. (1988). Endothelium-Dependent Responses in Large Arteries and in the Microcirculation. In: Vanhoutte, P.M. (eds) Relaxing and Contracting Factors. The Endothelium. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4588-9_18
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