Endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression in postmenopausal women: A sex-specific risk factor in coronary surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1934-1939

  Mannacio, Vito ^a   Di Tommaso, Luigi ^a   Antignano, Anita ^b   De Amicis, Vincenzo ^a   Stassano, Paolo ^a   Pinna, Giovanni Battista ^a   Vosa, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SANTOBONO PAUSILIPON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 84870033948     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.06.040     Document Type: Article

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