Concomitant transcriptional activation of nitric oxide synthase and heme oxygenase genes during nitric oxide-mediated macrophage cytostasis

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-52

  Kurata, Shun Ichi ^a   Matsumoto, Midori ^b   Yamashita, Uki ^c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide; Cytostasis; Heme oxygenase; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HEME OXYGENASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOSTASIS; GENE ACTIVATION; LEUKEMIA L 1210; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029737732     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021392     Document Type: Article

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