Segmental and laminar distributions of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase-expressing and neuronal nitric oxide synthase-immunoreactive neurons versus radioassay detection of catalytic nitric oxide synthase activity in the rabbit spinal cord

Neuroscience

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 229-237

  Lukacova N ^a   Cizkova D ^b   Marsala M ^b   Jalc P ^a   Marsala J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic NOS activity; Laminae and segments of the spinal cord; NADPH diaphorase; Neuronal NOS; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; CATALYSIS; CITRULLINE; FEMALE; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RABBITS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SPINAL CORD; TRITIUM;

EID: 0345240923     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00233-X     Document Type: Article

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