Normal vascular development in mice deficient in endothelial NO synthase: Possible role of neuronal NO synthase

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 549-558

  Al Shabrawey, Mohamed ^a,b   El Remessy, Azza B ^a   Gu, Xiaolin ^a   Brooks, Steven S ^a   Hamed, Mohamed S ^b   Huang, Paul ^c   Caldwell, Ruth B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ANTIBODY; FLUORESCEIN; ISOENZYME; LECTIN; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CAPILLARY; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; GRIFFONIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE SECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 0346670127     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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