Age-related decline of inducible nitric oxide synthase gene expression in primary cultured rat hepatocytes

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 399-406

  Pie, Jae Eun ^b   Back, Soo Youn ^a   Kim, Hong Pyo ^a   Ryu, Seung Duk ^a   Chung, Woon Gye ^a   Cha, Young Nam ^a   Park, Chang Shin ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Anyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aging; Gene Expression; Hepatocytes; Inducibility; Interleukin; Nitric Oxide

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROUS OXIDE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NOS2 PROTEIN, RAT;

AGING; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVER CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; LIVER CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HEPATOCYTES; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0038748620     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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