Inducible nitric oxide synthase: What difference does it make?

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2417-2423

  Nathan, Carl ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTROMELIA VIRUS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; GENE TRANSFER; GRAFT REJECTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030780758     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119782     Document Type: Review

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