Resistance to endotoxin shock in transgenic mice overexpressing endothelial nitric oxide synthase

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 931-937

  Yamashita, Tomoya ^a   Kawashima, Seinosuke ^a   Ohashi, Yoshitaka ^a   Ozaki, Masaori ^a   Ueyama, Tomomi ^a   Ishida, Tatsuro ^a   Inoue, Nobutaka ^a   Hirata, Ken Ichi ^a   Akita, Hozuka ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion molecules; Lung; Nitric oxide; Shock

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTENSION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LUNG FLUID; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0033994015     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.8.931     Document Type: Article

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