Preferential inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase in intact cells by the 4-amino analogue of tetrahydrobiopterin

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 25-31

  Schmidt, Kurt ^a   Werner Felmayer, Gabriele ^b   Mayer, Bernd ^a   Werner, Ernst R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Inst fur Pharmakol und Toxikol ^*

Author keywords

4 Amino tetrahydrobiopterin; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Intact cells

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIAMINO 5,6,7,8 TETRAHYDRO 6 (LEVO ERYTHRO 1,2 DIHYDROXYPROPYL)PTERIDINE; 5,6,7,8 TETRAHYDRO LEVO ERYTHROBIOPTERIN; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; RNA; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; CYTOKINES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE; SWINE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033556220     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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