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Caffeine's Vascular Mechanisms of Action
Figure 4
Indirect effects of caffeine on VSMC. Caffeine acts on the endothelial cell increasing cytoplasmic
which will form the calcium-calmodulin complex which activates the nitric oxide synthase enzyme to produce nitric oxide. This diffuses to the VSMC.