Coordinate induction of tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis and nitric oxide synthase activity in chicken macrophages: Upregulation of GTP-cyclohydrolase I activity

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-215

  Kaspers, Bernd ^a   Gütlich, Markus ^b   Witter, Klaus ^b   Lösch, Ulli ^a   Goldberg, Michael ^a   Ziegler, Irmgard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicken; GTP cyclohydrolase I; Macrophage; Macrophage activating factor; Nitric oxide; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIAMINO 6 HYDROXYPYRIMIDINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SEPIAPTERIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHICKEN; DNA PROBE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030836060     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00315-X     Document Type: Article

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