Enhanced collagen accumulation following direct transfection of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene in cutaneous wounds

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 654-659

  Thornton, Frank J ^a   Schäffer, Michael R ^a   Witte, Maria B ^a   Moldawer, Lyle L ^b   MacKay, Sally L D ^b   Abouhamze, Amer ^b   Tannahill, Cynthia L ^b   Barbul, Adrian ^a  

^a SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; LIPOSOME; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; PLASMID DNA; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL SPONGE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN INJURY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0032577243     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8681     Document Type: Article

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