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What does vasoactive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) That causes either constriction or dilation of a blood vessel
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Many cytokines secreted by cells involved in inflammation also have vasoactive and chemotactic properties.
Some foods are also on the list of headache-inducing factors, mainly due to their vasoactive properties that affect blood vessels in the head and brain.
Possible modulators of growth include acetylcholine, dopamine, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, and glucagon.
However, researchers don't dismiss the fact that chocolate is known to contain vasoactive amines that affect blood vessels in the brain.
Forty percent of patients were receiving at least one vasoactive drug to support their hemodynamic function.
It is a manifestation of immediate hypersensitivity due to the release of vasoactive mediators in a previously sensitised individual.

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