Vascular changes after cardiac surgery: Role of NOS, COX, kinases, and growth factors

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 689-698

  Sodha, Neel R ^a   Clements, Richard T ^a   Sellke, Frank W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; PKC; Prostaglandins; Review; Vasodilation; VEGF

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BLOOD VESSELS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN KINASES;

EID: 63849212216     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3273     Document Type: Article

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