Developmental regulation of GTP-CH1 in the porcine lung and its relationship to pulmonary vascular relaxation

Pediatric Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 767-772

  Nandi, Manasi ^a   Leiper, James ^a   Arrigoni, Francesca ^a   Hislop, Alison ^a   Vallance, Patrick ^a   Haworth, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SAPROPTERIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PTERIN DERIVATIVE; SEPIAPTERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME MECHANISM; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUPPLEMENTATION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG; METABOLISM; SWINE; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; PTERINS; SWINE; VASODILATION;

EID: 33746557602     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000219301.19958.a0     Document Type: Article

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