Pharmacological interference with dimerization of human neuronal nitric-oxide synthase expressed in adenovirus-infected DLD-1 cells

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 682-689

  Habisch, Hans jörg ^a   Gorren, Antonius C F ^a   Liang, Haiying ^b   Venema, Richard C ^b   Parkinson, John F ^c   Schmidt, Kurt ^a   Mayer, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N [(1,3 BENZODIOXOL 5 YL)METHYL] 1 [2 (1H IMIDAZOL 1 YL)PYRIMIDIN 4 YL] 4 (METHOXYCARBONYL)PIPERAZIN 2 ACETAMIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BINDING KINETICS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; INCUBATION TIME; INHIBITION KINETICS; KIDNEY CELL; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COS CELLS; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I;

EID: 0037334020     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.63.3.682     Document Type: Article

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