Nitric oxide synthase is increased following small intestinal transplantation in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-100

  Stadelmann, Andreas M ^a   Fink, John G ^a   Telford, Gordon L ^a   Walgenbach Telford, Susan ^a   Koch, Timothy R ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enteric nervous system; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase; Nitric oxide synthase; Small intestine; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ILEUM; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; JEJUNUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; INTESTINE, SMALL; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW;

EID: 0033532246     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00270-0     Document Type: Article

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