Gas phase oxidants of cigarette smoke increase nitric oxide synthase and xanthine oxidase activities of rabbit brain synaptosomes

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 769-774

  Deloconstantinos, G ^a   Villiotou, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoke; Membrane fluidity; Neurotoxicity; Nitric oxide (NO); NO synthase; Peroxynitrite (ONOO ); Synaptosomes; Xanthine oxidase

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXYNITRITE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOKING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXIDANTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; RABBITS; SMOKE; SYNAPTOSOMES; TOBACCO; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

EID: 0033887414     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007505221453     Document Type: Article

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