Of mice and men (and rats): implications of species and stimulus differences for the interpretation of studies of nitric oxide in sepsis

Br J Anaesth. 2003 Feb;90(2):115-8. doi: 10.1093/bja/aeg033.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Arginine / metabolism
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cytokines / metabolism
  • Disease Models, Animal*
  • Dogs
  • Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / metabolism
  • Nitric Oxide / biosynthesis
  • Nitric Oxide / metabolism*
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase / metabolism*
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II
  • Rats
  • Sepsis / metabolism*
  • Shock, Septic / metabolism
  • Species Specificity
  • Swine
  • Vasodilator Agents / metabolism*

Substances

  • Cytokines
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Arginine
  • NOS2 protein, human
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II
  • Nos2 protein, mouse
  • Nos2 protein, rat
  • Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing)