A review and discussion of platelet nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthase: do blood platelets produce nitric oxide from l-arginine or nitrite?

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1779-1793

  Gambaryan, Stepan ^a   Tsikas, Dimitrios ^b  

^a SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

cGMP; Mass spectrometry; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Pitfalls; Platelets; sGC

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; CYCLIC GMP; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; AUTOOXIDATION; CGMP ASSAY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; THROMBOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES;

EID: 84940460935     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-1986-1     Document Type: Article

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