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Does oxygen dilate blood vessels?
No, oxygen does not dilate blood vessels. In fact, oxygen has a vasoconstrictive effect, which means it causes blood vessels to constrict or narrow. This helps regulate blood flow and pressure in the body.
Is nitroglycerin an antagonist?
Nitroglycerin is not an antagonist. It is a medication that works by releasing nitric oxide, which causes relaxation of blood vessels and improves blood flow.
Does cocain make the blood vessels in your brain contract or expand?
Blood vessels in the brain of a cocaine user will narrow so that means the vessels contract.
Vasoconstriction means that the lumen of the blood vessels gets?
Narrow
What is the medical term meaning Classification of medication that will dilate vessels?
Vasodilation is normal increase in the diameter of a blood vessel. Aneurysm is a localized ballooning of a blood vessel.vasodilation.VasodilationAngioplasty and dilatation or if open surgery the suffix -plasty is used for the vessel for which the widening was done
Causes the blood vessels to contract?
vasoconstrictor
What is the effect of histamine on small as well as large blood vessels?
Histamine causes the dilation of the small blood vessels while constrict the large blood vessels.
How does your pulse beat?
When the heart beats it causes blood to flow through the blood vessels which causes them to expand. This expansion can be felt by touching the vessels that are close to the skin.
What medication prevents pain of angina by relaxing blood vessels to heart?
nitroglycerine
How smoking relative to atherosclerosis?
The culprits in emphysema are ANY lung irritants; smoke is just one type of irritant. In emphysema, the irritation causes some alveoli to collapse.In blood vessel disorders, like atherosclerosis, smoking can make blood thicker and "stickier", which causes narrowing of blood vessels as RBC and debris clog the vessels.
What are the most narrow blood vessels?
Capillaries. They're so small that red blood cells are sometimes forced to travel single-file.
What is angiotensin?
Angiotesin is a group of pepticides tha act as vasoconstrictor to narrow blood vesselsAn angiotensin is any of several polypeptides which narrow blood vessels and regulate arterial pressure.
