Nitric oxide and endotoxin-mediated sepsis: the role of osteopontin

Abbreviations: bactericidal/permeability-increasing, (BPI); basic fibroblast growth factor, (bFGF); cardiac index, (CI); cholesterol ester transfer protein, (CETP); chromatin immunoprecipitation, (ChIP); c-Jun N-terminal kinase, (JNK); cyclic monophosphate, (cGMP); endothelial NOS, (eNOS); Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser, (GRGDS); glycosylphosphatidyinositol, (GPI); heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein A/B, (hnRNP A/B); inducible NO synthase, (iNOS); interferon gamma, (IFN-γ); interleukin-1, (IL-1); lipopolysaccharide, (LPS); mean arterial pressure, (MAP); neuronal NOS, (nNOS); N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, (L-NAME); Nitric oxide, (NO); NO synthase, (NOS); osteopontin, (OPN); phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, (PMA); phospholipid transfer protein, (PLTP); platelet activating factor, (PAF); poly-ADP ribose synthase, (PARS); protein kinase RNA-regulated, (PKR); pulmonary vascular resistance, (PVR); reactive oxygen species, (ROS); suppression subtractive hybridization, (SSH); systemic inflammatory response syndrome, (SIRS); systemic vascular resistance, (SVR); TNFα receptor-associated factor-6, (TRAF6); Toll-like receptor 4, (TLR4); tumor necrosis factor-α, (TNFα)