Endothelial cells as cytotoxic effector cells: Cytokine-activated rat islet endothelial cells lyse syngeneic islet cells via nitric oxide

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-155

  Steiner, L ^a   Kroncke K D ^a,b   Fehsel, K ^a   Kolb Bachofen, V ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Diabetes mellitus; Endothelia; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ENDOTHELIUM; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031036369     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050656     Document Type: Article

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