Cationic amino acid transporter gene expression in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells and in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 6 45-6, 1999, Pages

  Hattori, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kasai, Kikuo ^b   Gross, Steven S ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arginine; Inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CATION; GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA SPLICING; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0033063539     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.h2020     Document Type: Article

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