Estrogen upregulates endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene expression in fetal pulmonary artery endothelium

Circulation Research

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 355-362

  MacRitchie, Amy N ^b   Jun, Sandy S ^b   Chen, Zhong ^b   German, Zohre ^b   Yuhanna, Ivan S ^b   Sherman, Todd S ^b   Shaul, Philip W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Endothelium; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor; Nitric oxide synthase; Pulmonary circulation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SHEEP; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030843573     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.81.3.355     Document Type: Article

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