Coinduction of GTP Cyclohydrolase I and Inducible NO Synthase in Rat Osteoblasts during Space Flight: Apoptotic and Self-protective Response?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1010, Issue , 2003, Pages 481-485

  Kumei, Yasuhiro ^a   Morita, Sadao ^a   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a   Akiyama, Hideo ^b   Hirano, Masahiko ^b   Shimokawa, Hitoyata ^a   Ohya, Kei'ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TORAY RESEARCH CENTER INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; GTP cyclohydrolase; NOS; Osteoblast; Space flight

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROTECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE VESSEL; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOLUBILIZATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; TRIXIS;

EID: 1342284264     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1299.087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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