Effect of vein graft harvesting on endothelial nitric oxide synthase and nitric oxide production

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 939-944

  Dashwood, Michael R ^a   Savage, Kay ^b   Dooley, Audrey ^b   Shi Wen, Xu ^b   Abraham, David J ^b   Souza, Domingos S R ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRULLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; TISSUE EXTRACT;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VEIN GRAFT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TRANSPLANTS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 23944489864     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.042     Document Type: Article

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