Nitric oxide synthase: Role as a transmitter/mediator in the brain and endocrine system

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue , 1996, Pages 219-227

  Dawson, Ted M ^a   Dawson, Valina L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium derived relaxing factor; Long term potentiation; NADPH diaphorase; Neurotoxicity; Poly ADP ribose synthetase

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VASODILATATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029873572     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.47.1.219     Document Type: Review

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