Nitric oxide synthase is expressed in the lymphomononuclear cells of synovial fluid in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2083-2088

  Borderie, Didier ^a,b   Hilliquin, Pascal ^a   Hernvann, Alain ^a   Kahan, Andre ^a   Menkes, Charles Joel ^a   Ekindjian, Ohvanesse G ^a  

^a Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

^b Laboratoire de Biochimie A   (France)

Author keywords

Mononuclear cells; Nitric oxide; No synthase; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovial fluid

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0032867486     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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