Renal cortex neuronal nitric oxide synthase in response to rapamycin in kidney transplantation

Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-86

  Tain, You Lin ^a,c   Muller, Veronika ^d   Szabo, Attila J ^d   Erdely, Aaron ^e   Smith, Cheryl ^a   Baylis, Chris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic allograft nephropathy; Immunosuppression; Kidney transplant; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RAPAMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SIROLIMUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

RATTUS;

EID: 37349005509     PISSN: 10898603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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