Bilirubin oxidation provoked by nitric oxide radicals predicts the progression of acute cardiac allograft rejection

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1897-1906

  Yamamoto, M ^a   Maeda, H ^a   Hirose, N ^a   Radhakrishnan, G ^a   Katare, R G ^a   Hayashi, Y ^a   Rao, P ^a   Lee, G H ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^b   Sasaguri, S ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Biopyrrins; Cardiac acute rejection; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; BILIRUBIN; BILIRUBIN DERIVATIVE; BIOPYRRIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; HEME OXYGENASE 1; NITRIC OXIDE; TROPONIN T; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOGRAFT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE INJURY; URINE LEVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIPYRONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEME OXYGENASE-1; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOCARDIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROGNOSIS; RATS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TYROSINE;

EID: 34447127513     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.01868.x     Document Type: Article

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