Inhibition of tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis reduces nitric oxide production by isolated glomeruli in immune complex glomerulonephritis

Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-47

  Bune, Alison J ^a   Cook, H Terence ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glomerulonephritis; Lipopolysaccharide; Nephrotoxic nephritis, accelerated; Nitric oxide; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIAMINO 6 HYDROXYPYRIMIDINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; METHOTREXATE; NITRIC OXIDE; SEPIAPTERIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GLOMERULUS; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BIOPTERIN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HYPOXANTHINES; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; METHOTREXATE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PTERIDINES; PTERINS; RATS;

EID: 0030033972     PISSN: 10187782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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