Functional activity and expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in muscle of the isolated distal colon of mdx mice

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 795-803

  Vannucchi, Maria Giuliana ^a   Corsani, Letizia ^a   Azzena, Gian Battista ^b   Faussone Pellegrini, Maria Simonetta ^a   Mancinelli, Rino ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age related changes; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Immunohistochemistry; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Intestinal motility; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; ISOLATED ORGAN; MOUSE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; COLON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 2642547403     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20010     Document Type: Article

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