Expression of nitric oxide synthase (NOS)-2 following permanent focal ischemia and the role of nitric oxide in infarct generation in male, female and NOS-2 gene-deficient mice

Brain Research

Volumn 830, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 155-164

  Loihl, Angela K ^a   Asensio, Valerie ^b   Campbell, Iain L ^b   Murphy, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Chemokine; Gender; Gene disruption; Nitric oxide synthase 2

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHEMOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II;

EID: 0033614617     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01388-8     Document Type: Article

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