Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression in the Intestinal Muscularis Mediates Severe Smooth Muscle Dysfunction During Acute Rejection in Allogenic Rodent Small Bowel Transplantation

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-168

  Schaefer, Nico ^a   Tahara, Kazunori ^a   Pech, Thomas ^a   Websky, Martin V ^a   Fujishiro, Jun ^a   Pantelis, Dimitrios ^a   Abu Elmagd, Kareem ^b   Kalff, Jörg C ^a   Hirner, Andreas ^a   Türler, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute rejection; inflammation; iNOS; intestinal muscularis propria; intestinal transplantation; leukocyte infiltrate; macrophages; NO; smooth muscle dysfunction

Indexed keywords

BETHANECHOL; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; JEJUNUM MUCOSA; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 56449118371     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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