Elevated L-Arginine/Dimethylarginine ratio contributes to enhanced systemic NO production by dietary L-arginine in hypercholesterolemic rabbits

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 598-603

  Bode Böger, Stefanie M ^a   Böger, Rainer H ^a   Kienke, Sven ^a   Junker, Wolfgang ^a   Frölich, Jürgen C ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; CHOLESTEROL; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0029670349     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0279     Document Type: Article

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