Interleukin 1β markedly stimulates nitric oxide formation in the absence of other cytokines or lipopolysaccharide in primary cultured rat hepatocytes but not in Kupffer cells

Hepatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 797-802

  Kitade, Hiroaki ^a   Sakitani, Kazushige ^a   Indue, Kvoichi ^a   Masu, Yasuo ^a   Kawada, Norifumi ^b   Hiramatsu, Yoshifumi ^a   Kamiyama, Yasuo ^a   Okumura, Tadayoshi ^a   Ito, Seiji ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 6; RECOMBINANT TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029881321     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v23.pm0008666334     Document Type: Article

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