Component

Rat thoracic aortic ring tension

2 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.

How nutrients influence it

Every nutrient with a recorded effect on this component, credited to the nutrient that acted rather than the chapter that recorded it. Open a nutrient to see the findings and the conditions they were measured under.

How nutrients reach it in more than one step

Chains of two or more recorded steps that end here, grouped by the nutrient they start from. Each step is a separate finding, so a chain is a route a mechanism could take, not proof that it does.

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What it does

Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.

Recorded relationships

What acts on it

  1. Nattokinase relaxed rat thoracic aortic rings dose-dependently, and the relaxation required an intact endothelium.

    Experimental context and source evidence
    duration
    Not stated here
    evidence_access
    Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
    experimental_model
    Rat
    exposure
    Nattokinase
    limitations
    The proteolytic target that starts this response is not identified. Endothelium dependence narrows where it begins without naming the step.
    organism
    Rat
    plain_language
    Nattokinase relaxed rat thoracic aortic rings dose-dependently, and the relaxation required an intact endothelium.
    primary_references
    Mechanisms of Nattokinase in protection of cerebral ischemia. (2014) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25446567/ DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2014.10.024
    route
    Ex vivo
    tissue
    Thoracic aortic ring, contracted with KCl or norepinephrine

    Nattokinase: what the purified enzyme cleaves, what survives being eaten, and the gap between the two (2026-09-23) · lines 400–400

    Original AI-assisted curation built from a supplied entity-first document of 105 entities and 129 claims. Every reference in that document was resolved against live PubMed with its abstract read and its DOI cross-checked on 2026-09-23, and the EFSA novel-food opinion was retrieved and read in full. That check corrected two PMIDs that pointed at unrelated papers, two DOIs, and two papers recorded as carrying no erratum that do carry one; it also reversed three findings the supplied document had stated backwards. Two papers carry a published correction, recorded as such and not as a retraction. Three sources are not indexed in PubMed and are cited by what they have. Laboratory lineages are recorded, so the four papers from one group, the three from another and the two readings of a single applicant dossier cannot be counted as separate lines of support. Study-specific doses, units, populations and limitations retained; activity units are never converted between systems. Not publisher full text. · supports · Rat · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft

    Nattokinase relaxed rat thoracic aortic rings dose-dependently, and the relaxation required an intact endothelium.
    Complete structured claim and evidence
  2. N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester attenuated the relaxation, implicating nitric-oxide synthase in it.

    Experimental context and source evidence
    availability_state
    machinery_impairment Imported condition classification; unverified.
    duration
    Not stated here
    evidence_access
    Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
    experimental_model
    Rat
    exposure
    Nattokinase with L-NAME
    limitations
    Recorded under a blocked pathway: the finding is what happens when NOS is inhibited. The isoform is not identified, and indomethacin was tested in the same design without its result being separable from the abstract.
    organism
    Rat
    plain_language
    N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester attenuated the relaxation, implicating nitric-oxide synthase in it.
    primary_references
    Mechanisms of Nattokinase in protection of cerebral ischemia. (2014) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25446567/ DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2014.10.024
    route
    Ex vivo
    tissue
    Thoracic aortic ring
    trigger_kind
    machinery_impairment Imported condition classification; unverified.

    Nattokinase: what the purified enzyme cleaves, what survives being eaten, and the gap between the two (2026-09-23) · lines 411–411

    Original AI-assisted curation built from a supplied entity-first document of 105 entities and 129 claims. Every reference in that document was resolved against live PubMed with its abstract read and its DOI cross-checked on 2026-09-23, and the EFSA novel-food opinion was retrieved and read in full. That check corrected two PMIDs that pointed at unrelated papers, two DOIs, and two papers recorded as carrying no erratum that do carry one; it also reversed three findings the supplied document had stated backwards. Two papers carry a published correction, recorded as such and not as a retraction. Three sources are not indexed in PubMed and are cited by what they have. Laboratory lineages are recorded, so the four papers from one group, the three from another and the two readings of a single applicant dossier cannot be counted as separate lines of support. Study-specific doses, units, populations and limitations retained; activity units are never converted between systems. Not publisher full text. · supports · Rat · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft

    N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester attenuated the relaxation, implicating nitric-oxide synthase in it.
    Complete structured claim and evidence

In the sources

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