A vascular bed-specific pathway regulates cardiac expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 799-805

  Guillot, Pascale V ^a   Guan, Jason ^a   Liu, Lixin ^a   Kuivenhoven, Jan A ^b   Rosenberg, Robert D ^a,b   Sessa, William C ^c   Aird, William C ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REGULATION; HEART; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0033560056     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI6017     Document Type: Article

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