Reduced endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression and production in human atherosclerosis

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 2494-2498

  Oemar, Barry S ^c   Tschudi, Marcel R ^c   Godoy, Nelson ^c   Brovkovich, Victor ^a   Malinski, Tadeusz ^a   Lüscher, Thomas F ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Arteries; Atherosclerosis; Endothelium; Nitric oxide; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROKE; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 0032580971     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.25.2494     Document Type: Article

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