Human alveolar epithelial cells induce nitric oxide synthase‐2 expression in alveolar macrophages
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Human alveolar epithelial cells induce nitric oxide synthase-2 expression in alveolar macrophages.
It was hypothesized that cell-to-cell interaction between human alveolar macrophages (AM) and alveolar epithelium, might be an important factor leading to nitric oxide synthase-2 (NOS2) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) and protein expression by constituent cells of the alveolar wall and/or AM. NOS2 mRNA and the protein expression patterns of human AM and alveolar epithelial cells type II (AEC-...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.02.00682001a