Cloning of rat and human inducible penile nitric oxide synthase. Application for gene therapy of erectile dysfunction

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 954-963

  Garban H ^a   Marquez, D ^a   Magee, T ^a   Moody, J ^a   Rajavashisth, T ^a   Rodriguez J A ^a   Hung, A ^a   Vernet, D ^a   Rajfer, J ^a   Gonzalez Cadavid N F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030978643     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.4.954     Document Type: Article

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