Tetrahydrobiopterin, cytokines, and nitric oxide synthesis

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 171-182

  Werner, Ernst R ^a,c   Werner Felmayer, Gabriele ^a   Mayer, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CALCIUM ION; CITRULLINE; CYCLIC GMP; CYTOKINE; DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE; DIMER; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HEME; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGENASE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; PTERIDINE; PTERIN; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031755741     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-219-44331     Document Type: Short Survey

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