Nitric oxide synthase is expressed in human macrophages during foreign body inflammation

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 881-887

  Moilanen, Eeva ^a   Moilanen, Teemu ^b   Knowles, Richard ^a,c   Charles, Ian ^a   Kadoya, Yoshinori ^b   Al Saffar, Najat ^b   Revell, Peter A ^b   Moncada, Salvador ^a,d  

^a WELLCOME RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES; BASE SEQUENCE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RNA; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0031049723     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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