Involvement of nitric oxide in survival of random pattern skin flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 785-792

  Um, Soon Chan ^a   Suzuki, Shigehiko ^a   Toyokuni, Shinya ^a   Kim, Byung Mook ^a   Tanaka, Tomoyuki ^a   Hiai, Hiroshi ^a   Nishimura, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGRENE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FREE RADICALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; ISCHEMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NECROSIS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROARGININE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TYROSINE;

EID: 0345055321     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199803000-00030     Document Type: Article

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