Tacrolimus impairs wound healing: A possible role of decreased nitric oxide synthesis

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 813-818

  Schäffer, Michael R ^a   Fuchs, Nico ^b   Proksch, Barbara ^b   Bongartz, Martina ^b   Beiter, Thomas ^b   Becker, Horst Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INHIBITION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; PORIFERA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TACROLIMUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0345368060     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199803270-00008     Document Type: Article

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