Implication of nitric oxide synthase in carcinogenesis: Analysis of the human inducible nitric oxide synthase gene

Pharmacogenetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 1995, Pages S166-S170

  Esumi, Hiroyasu ^b   Ogura, Tsutomu ^a   Kurashima, Yukiko ^a   Adachi, Hiroko ^a   Hokari, Atsushi ^a   Weiszf, Alessandro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; RECOMBINANT TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; BLOOD CELL; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LUCIFERASE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029046076     PISSN: 0960314X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008571-199512001-00021     Document Type: Article

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