Coinduction of nitric oxide synthase and arginine metabolic enzymes in endotoxin-induced uveitis rats

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 659-667

  Koga, Takahisa ^a,b   Koshiyama, Yasuo ^a,b   Gotoh, Tomomi ^a,b   Yonemura, Naoko ^a,b   Hirata, Akira ^a,b   Tanihara, Hidenobu ^a,b   Negi, Akira ^a,b   Mori, Masataka ^a,b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginase; Arginine; Citrulline NO cycle; Endotoxin induced uveitis; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; ARGININE; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; ENDOTOXIN; ISOENZYME; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EYE INFLAMMATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INJECTION; IRIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0036921586     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.2002.2062     Document Type: Article

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