Regulation of prostaglandin production by nitric oxide in rat smooth muscle myometrial cells

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-76

  Motta, A B ^a   Gonzalez, E T ^a   Rudolph, I ^b   Gimeno, M F ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032908330     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/plef.1998.1189     Document Type: Article

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