Nitric oxide mediates a therapeutic effect of nicotine in ulcerative colitis

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1429-1434

  Green, J T ^a,b   Richardson, C ^a,b   Marshall, R W ^a,b   Rhodes, J ^a,b   Mckirdy, H C ^a,b   Thomas, G A O ^a,b   Williams, G T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NICOTINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NICOTINE; NITRIC OXIDE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0033678772     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2000.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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