Ultrastructural localization of nitric oxide synthase and endothelin in rat pulmonary artery and vein during postnatal development and ageing

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 355-365

  Loesch, A ^a   Burnstock, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Endothelin; Nitric oxide synthase; Pulmonary artery; Pulmonary vein; Rat (Wistar)

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; ENDOTHELIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030049999     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050546     Document Type: Article

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