Increased nitrite reductase activity of fetal versus adult ovine hemoglobin

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Blood, Arlin B ^a,b   Tiso, Mauro ^c   Verma, Shilpa T ^b   Lo, Jennifer ^a   Joshi, Mahesh S ^e   Azarov, Ivan ^e   Longo, Lawrence D ^b   Gladwin, Mark T ^c,d   Kim Shapiro, Daniel B ^e   Power, Gordon G ^b  

^a Division of Neonatology   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Kinetics; Nitric oxide; Vascular control

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; DITHIONITE; METHEMOGLOBIN; NITRITE; OXYGEN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIRTH; BLOOD FLOW; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BIOCATALYSIS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HYPOXIA; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PH; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BIOCATALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DITHIONITE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; METHEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SHEEP;

EID: 61949116639     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00601.2008     Document Type: Article

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