Positive association of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphisms with high-altitude pulmonary edema

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 826-830

  Droma, Yunden ^a   Hanaoka, Masayuki ^a   Ota, Masao ^a   Katsuyama, Yoshihiko ^a   Koizumi, Tomonobu ^a   Fujimoto, Keisaku ^a   Kobayashi, Toshio ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genes; Hypertension, pulmonary; Hypoxia; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASE PAIRING; CLIMBING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY EDEMA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037072457     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000024409.30143.70     Document Type: Article

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