PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hannelore Ehrenreich AU - L. Schilling TI - New developments in the understanding of cerebral vasoregulation and vasospasm: the endothelin-nitric oxide network DP - 1995 Mar 01 TA - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine PG - 105--116 VI - 62 IP - 2 4099 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/62/2/105.short 4100 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/62/2/105.full SO - Cleve Clin J Med1995 Mar 01; 62 AB - SUMMARY Endothelins, which are powerful vasoconstrictors, and nitric oxide, which is a powerful vasodilator, together form a balanced system that regulates blood flow in the brain and in other organs. Ongoing research may yield new drugs that act on this system to prevent or reverse cerebral vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage and other conditions.