Cationic proteins inhibit L-arginine uptake in rat alveolar macrophages and tracheal epithelial cells: Implications for nitric oxide synthesis

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-162

  Hammermann, Rainer ^b   Hirschmann, Joachim ^b   Hey, Claudia ^b   Mössner, Jutta ^b   Folkerts, Gert ^b   Nijkamp, Frans P ^b   Wessler, Ignaz ^b   Racké, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; ARGININE; CITRULLINE; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYSINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; PLASMA PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MALE; METABOLISM; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; ARGINASE; ARGININE; BLOOD PROTEINS; CITRULLINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPARIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LUNG; LYSINE; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBONUCLEASES; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA;

EID: 0033172721     PISSN: 10441549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.21.2.3574     Document Type: Article

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