Maturation alters cerebral NOS kinetics in the spontaneously hypertensive rat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 4 42-4, 1997, Pages

  Pearce, William J ^a,b   Tone, Beatriz ^a   Ashwal, Stephen ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Calmodulin; Flavin adenine dinucleotide; Flavin mononucleotide; Newborn; Nitric oxide; Nitro L arginine methyl ester; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CALMODULIN; CITRULLINE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0030659074     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.4.r1367     Document Type: Article

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