Fluvastatin upregulates inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in cytokine-stimulated vascular smooth muscle cells

Hypertension

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 923-928

  Chen, Hong ^a   Ikeda, Uichi ^a,b   Shimpo, Masahisa ^a   Ikeda, Michiyo ^a   Minota, Seiji ^a   Shimada, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Interleukins; Muscle; Nitric oxide; Smooth

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYTOKINE; FLUINDOSTATIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0033664617     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.36.6.923     Document Type: Article

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