Nitric oxide generation by endothelial cells exposed to shear stress in glass tubes perfused with red blood cell suspensions: Role of aggregation

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Yalcin, Ozlem ^a   Ulker, Pinar ^a   Yavuzer, Ugur ^a   Meiselman, Herbert J ^b   Baskurti, Oguz K ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Human umbilical vein endothelial cells; Nitric oxide; Plasma viscosity; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; POLOXAMER; SERINE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NOS3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SUSPENSION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SHEAR STRESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENZYMOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PERFUSION; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DEXTRANS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; PERFUSION; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLOXAMER; SERINE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 44949107375     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00015.2008     Document Type: Article

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