Nitric oxide production by hemocytes of the ascidian Styela plicata

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-128

  De Barros, Cintia Monteiro ^a   De Carvalho, Danielle Ronald ^a   Andrade, Leonardo R ^a   Pavão, Mauro Sérgio G ^a   Allodi, Silvana ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ascidian, Styela plicata (Chordata,Tunicata); Blood cells; Electron microscopy; Immunoelectron microscopy; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; NF B

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLOOD CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUTROPHICATION; GRANULOCYTE; LEUKEMIA; MORULA; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STYELA PLICATA;

ANIMALS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HEMOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NF-KAPPA B; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INVERTEBRATA; STYELA PLICATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 70350007745     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-009-0851-5     Document Type: Article

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