Endothelial cell dysfunction and nitric oxide synthase
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Bovine Aortic Endothelial Cell Nitric Oxide Synthase
The constitutive endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase (NOS) importantly regulates vascular homeostasis. To gain understanding of this enzyme, a pEF BOS cDNA library of 5 X 105 clones was prepared from bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC) and screened with a 2.8-kb cDNA BamHI fragment of rat brain NOS. Clone pBOS13 was found to express NO synthase activity when transfected into COS-7 cells. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Kidney International
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0085-2538
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00292.x