Differential expression of nitric oxide synthases in bacterial meningitis: Role of the inducible isoform for blood-brain barrier breakdown

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 183, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1749-1759

  Winkler, F ^a   Koedel, U ^a   Kastenbauer, S ^a   Pfister, H W ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; BRAIN PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN-1; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONOKINES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0035877050     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320730     Document Type: Article

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