Direct evidence of in vivo nitric oxide production and inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA expression in the brain of living rat during experimental meningitis

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1175-1178

  Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Fujii, Satoshi ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^b   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^b   Fujii, Shigemoto ^c   Akaike, Takaaki ^c   Maeda, Hiroshi ^c   Yoshimura, Tetsuhiko ^a  

^a Yamagata Technopolis Foundation   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

In vivo electron paramagnetic resonance detection; Inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA; Meningitis; Nitric oxide; Spin Trapping

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; IRON COMPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIN TRAPPING;

EID: 0033496985     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-199911000-00001     Document Type: Article

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