p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase mediates synergistic induction of inducible nitric-oxide synthase by lipopolysaccharide and interferon-γ through signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 Ser727 phosphorylation in murine aortic endothelial cells

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 302-311

  Huang, Hong ^a   Rose, Jane L ^a   Hoyt, Dale G ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; BETA ACTIN; CYTOKINE; DNA; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; HERBIMYCIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; STAT1 PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME INDUCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMIDAZOLES; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; SERINE; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 3342885962     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.66.2.302     Document Type: Article

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