1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 inhibits the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in rat central nervous system during experimental allergic encephalomyelitis

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 255-267

  Garcion, E ^a   Nataf, S ^a   Berod, A ^b   Darcy, F ^a   Brachet, P ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Brain; Calcitriol; Cytokine; Free radical; Glial cell; Inflammation; Macrophage; Microglia; Monocyte; Nitric oxide; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CALCITRIOL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPENDYMA; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MONOCYTES; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031149121     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(96)00260-4     Document Type: Article

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