The capacity of red blood cells to reduce nitrite determines nitric oxide generation under hypoxic conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Fens, Marcel H ^a   Larkin, Sandra K ^a   Oronsky, Bryan ^b   Scicinski, Jan ^b   Morris, Claudia R ^c   Kuypers, Frans A ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RadioRx Inc   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN; XANTHINE OXIDASE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; CELL HYPOXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; SICKLE CELL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; FETUS BLOOD; KINETICS; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CELL HYPOXIA; ERYTHROCYTES; FETAL BLOOD; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84903973507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101626     Document Type: Article

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