Human ramified microglial cells produce nitric oxide upon Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide and tumor necrosis factor α stimulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 144-146

  Colasanti, Marco ^a   Persichini, Tiziana ^a   Di Pucchio, Tiziana ^a   Gremo, Fulvia ^b   Lauro, Giuliana M ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Institute of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human microglia; Inducible NO synthase; Nitric oxide; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMAN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0028864234     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12101-9     Document Type: Article

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