Hydrogen sulfide: Its production and functions

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 833-835

  Kimura, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 3 MERCAPTOPYRUVATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; 3 MERCAPTOPYRUVIC ACID; ACETYLCYSTEINE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITAL; CALCIUM ION; CALMODULIN; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; CYCLIC AMP; CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEVODOPA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SULFURTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DISEASE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; CRYOPROTECTION; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ETHE1 GENE; ETHYLMALONYL ENCEPHALOPATHY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RELEASE; MITOCHONDRION; MITRAL CELL; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OLFACTORY BULB; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PURKINJE CELL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SYNAPSE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 80051930603     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2011.057455     Document Type: Note

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