Increase in experimental pulmonary metastasis in mice by L-arginine under inhibition of nitric oxide production by N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 140-144

  Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Terada, Nobuyuki ^b   Seiyama, Akitishi ^c   Nishizawa, Yasuko ^a   Akedo, Hitoshi ^b   Kosaka, Hiroaki ^d  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PLATELETS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLATELET AGGREGATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VENULES;

EID: 0032484562     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980105)75:1<140::AID-IJC21>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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