Molecular basis for arsenic-induced alteration in nitric oxide production and oxidative stress: Implication of endothelial dysfunction

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 450-457

  Kumagai, Yoshito ^a   Pi, Jingbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

5,6,7,8 Tetrahydrobiopterin; Arsenic; NADPH oxidase; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Oxidative stress; Superoxide; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARSENIC POISONING; CARDIOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC POISONING; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242802236     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2003.10.031     Document Type: Review

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