Increased vascular catecholamine sensitivity and alpha-adrenergic receptor affinity in female and estrogen-treated male rats.

Wilson S. Colucci, Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., Margaret K. McLaughlin, William Halpern, and R. Wayne Alexander From the Cardiovascular Divison and the Vascular Pathophysiology Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont