Tetrahydrobiopterin in pulmonary hypertension: Pulmonary hypertension in guanosine triphosphate-cyclohydrolase-deficient mice

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2022-2024

  Pritchard Jr , Kirkwood A ^a,b   Shi, Yang ^a   Konduri, G Ganesh ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorials; Hypertension, pulmonary; Nitric oxide synthase; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; TIRON;

BLOOD VESSEL TONE; EDITORIAL; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BIOPTERIN; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 17744399934     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000164391.72968.84     Document Type: Editorial

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