Endothelial nitric oxide synthase Glu298Asp, 4b/a, and T-786C polymorphisms in type 2 diabetic retinopathy

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 542-546

  Ezzidi, Intissar ^a   Mtiraoui, Nabil ^a   Mohamed, Manel Ben Hadj ^a   Mahjoub, Touhami ^a   Kacem, Maha ^b   Almawi, Wassim Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b Nephrology and Internal Medicine Service EPS F Bourguiba   (Tunisia)

^c ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTANT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 40749100652     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.03089.x     Document Type: Article

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