Effects of sex and of gene variants in constitutive nitric oxide synthases on exhaled nitric oxide

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1113-1116

  Grasemann, Hartmut ^a   Van's Gravesande, Karin Storm ^b   Büscher, Rainer ^b   Drazen, Jeffrey M ^b   Ratjen, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Polymorphism; Sex factors

Indexed keywords

ENZYME VARIANT; GENOMIC DNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRON; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEX; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREATH TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0037446998     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200211-1342OC     Document Type: Article

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