Histochemical evidence for inducible nitric oxide synthase in advanced but non-ruptured human atherosclerotic carotid arteries

Histochemical Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-51

  Behr Roussel, Delphine ^a   Rupin, Alain ^b   Sansilvestri Morel, Patricia ^b   Fabiani, Jean Noël ^a   Verbeuren, Tony J ^b  

^a HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME HISTOCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RNA, MESSENGER; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0034077681     PISSN: 00182214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003958312508     Document Type: Article

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