The Asp298 but not the C-786 genotype of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase is reduced with age in healthy Swiss men [1]

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 971-973

  Muntwyler, Jörg ^a   Marti Jaun, Jacqueline ^b   Lüscher, Thomas F ^a   Hänseler, Edgar ^b   Hersberger, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Gene; Nitric oxide synthase; Polymorphism; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; THREONINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASPARTIC ACID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 26844473397     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.167     Document Type: Letter

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