Inducible nitric oxide synthase gene expression in the brain during systemic inflammation

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 581-584

  Wing, Ma Li ^a   Rettori, Valeria ^b   Al Shekhlee, Amer ^a   Bongiorno, Peter B ^a   Canteros, Griselda ^b   Mccann, Samuel M ^c   Gold, Philip W ^a   Licinio, Julio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b Universidad Nacional del Litoral   (Argentina)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENCEPHALITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CITRULLINE; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029944706     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0596-581     Document Type: Article

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