Pathogenetic role of eNOS uncoupling in cardiopulmonary disorders

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 765-776

  Gielis, Jan F ^a   Lin, Judy Y ^b   Wingler, Kirstin ^b   Van Schil, Paul E Y ^a   Schmidt, Harald H ^b   Moens, An L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardioprotection; eNOS modulators; eNOS uncoupling; Free radicals; Superoxide; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; AVE 9488; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CITRULLINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLIC ACID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRIC OXIDE; SAPROPTERIN; SILDENAFIL; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

AGING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENYLKETONURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; SMOKING; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; VASODILATATION; WOUND HEALING;

ARGININE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOPTERIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CELL ADHESION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; VASODILATION; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 79952043054     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2010.12.018     Document Type: Review

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