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Does histamine cause blood vessels to contract?
No it causes them to dilate (vasodilation)
What blocks the enzyme action that causes the blood vessels to contract resulting in hypertention?
ACE inhibtors
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.
Is benicar a diuretic?
Benicar is a Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARBs) not a diuretic. Angiotensin causes the muscles surrounding blood vessels to contract, thereby narrowing the blood vessels. Narrowing of blood vessels increases the pressure within the blood vessels and may lead to high blood pressure (hypertension). For the treatment of hypertension.
Do you apply heat or ice on something swollen?
Ice - it causes tissues and blood vessels to contract - thus reducing swelling.
What is vasoconstiction?
vasoconstriction is when your blood vessels contract.
The force with which the contract causes blood pressure?
the force with which what the contract causes blood pressure
What is Angiotensin I?
It causes narrowing of the small blood vessels in tissues, resulting in an increase in blood pressure
Does Nicotine contract blood vessels?
True
What is the highest pressure against the blood vessels and also occurs when the ventricles contract?
The highest pressure against the blood vessels is Systolic Pressure, and it occurs when the ventricles contract.
Blocks the action of the enzyme that causes the blood vessels to contract resulting in hypertension?
ACE inhibitor
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.
