Importance of glutamine macrophages and human monocytes to L-arginine biosynthesis and rates of nitrite or urea production

Clinical Science

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 397-407

  Murphy, Colin ^a   Newsholme, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Arginine; Glutamine; Macrophages; Monocytes; Nitrite; Urea

Indexed keywords

6 DIAZO 5 OXONORLEUCINE; ARGINASE; ARGININE; BCG VACCINE; CITRULLINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; ORNITHINE; UREA; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NOS2A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREA CYCLE; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE STRAIN; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; DIAZOOXONORLEUCINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MONOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; UREA;

EID: 0031710853     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS19980194     Document Type: Article

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