Enhanced production of inducible nitric oxide synthase by β-glucans in mice

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-135

  Hashimoto, Tomoe ^a   Ohno, Naohito ^a   Adachi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yadomae, Toshiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

glucan; IFN ; iNOS

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GLUCANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

EID: 0030665179     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00078-3     Document Type: Article

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