L-arginine availability modulates local nitric oxide production and parasite killing in experimental trypanosomiasis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 4653-4657

  Gobert, Alain P ^a,b   Daulouede, Sylvie ^a   Lepoivre, Michel ^c   Boucher, Jean Luc ^d   Bouteille, Bernard ^e   Buguet, Alain ^f   Cespuglio, Raymond ^g   Veyret, Bernard ^b   Vincendeau, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

^g INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; POLYAMINE; UREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UREA CYCLE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ARGINASE; ARGININE; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 0033915318     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.8.4653-4657.2000     Document Type: Article

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