Lack of endothelial nitric oxide synthase aggravates murine pneumococcal meningitis

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1041-1050

  Koedel, Uwe ^a   Paul, Robert ^a   Winkler, Frank ^a   Kastenbauer, Stefan ^a   Huang, Paul L ^b   Pfister, Hans Walter ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS inflammation; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Meningitis; Mouse model; Nitric oxide; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 2; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PADGEM PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL INFILTRATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0034759462     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnen/60.11.1041     Document Type: Article

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