Smoking impairs the activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in saphenous vein

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 546-552

  Higman, Dan J ^a   Strachan, Alex M J ^a   Buttery, Lee ^b   Hicks, Robert C J ^a   Springall, David R ^b   Greenhalgh, Roger M ^a   Powell, Janet T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

endothelium; nitric oxide synthase; smoking; tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BYPASS SURGERY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ICOSANOID METABOLISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; VEIN STRIPPING;

EID: 0029869985     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.16.4.546     Document Type: Article

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