Neuritic sprouting with aberrant expression of the nitric oxide synthase III gene in neurodegenerative diseases

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-151

  Sohn, Yoon K ^a   Ganju, Neema ^a   Bloch, Kenneth D ^a   Wands, Jack R ^a   De La Monte, Suzanne M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Constitutive endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Glia; Neuritic sprouting; Neurodegeneration; NOS III

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NEURITES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PARKINSON DISEASE; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE;

EID: 0033556652     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00297-4     Document Type: Article

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