Suppression of the oxidative burst in murine microglia by nitric oxide

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 75-78

  Kiprianova, Irina ^a   Schwab, Stefan ^a   Fandrey, Joachim ^b   Spranger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Free oxygen radicals; Microglia; Nitric oxide; Oxidative burst; Superoxide anion

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; KINETICS; MICE; MICROGLIA; MOLSIDOMINE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE; PENICILLAMINE; RESPIRATORY BURST; S-NITROSO-N-ACETYLPENICILLAMINE; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 0030937856     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00235-8     Document Type: Article

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