Abstract
β-Adrenoceptor activity of rat thoracic aorta decreased with the increasing age of the animal. The ability of aortas to relax to isoprenaline was completely lost when rats were 3-6 months old, depending on the source and strain of animals. NaNO2, however, completely relaxed aortic tissue from animals of all ages tested.
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