Role of nitric oxide in progression and regression of atherosclerosis

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 419-424

  Cooke, John P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; REMISSION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; MONOCYTES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RABBITS;

EID: 0029929206     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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