Can nitric oxide synthase activity be unequivocally measured in red blood cells and platelets? If yes, by which assay?

Redox Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-151

  Tsikas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,5 DIAMINOFLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; ARGININE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; CERULOPLASMIN; CITRULLINE; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HEMOGLOBIN; METHEMOGLOBIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; OXYHEMOGLOBIN; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; THROMBOCYTE; ANIMAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENZYMOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ARTICLE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III;

EID: 84951966080     PISSN: 22132317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2015.01.019     Document Type: Letter

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