Artemisinin Improves Acetylcholine-Induced Vasodilatation in Rats with Primary Hypertension

Abstract

These results indicate that treatment with artemisinin has beneficial effects on reducing the heart rate and basal vascular tension and improving endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation in hypertension, which might occur by increasing eNOS activation and NO release and inhibiting NAD(P)H oxidase derived ROS production.