Possible Involvement of Altered Arginase Activity, Arginase Type I and Type II Expressions, and Nitric Oxide Production in Occurrence of Intimal Hyperplasia in Premenopausal Human Uterine Arteries

• Main Authors: Galina Vasileva Marinova (Author), Renzo Ygor Loyaga-Rendon (Author), Satoshi Obayashi (Author), Tomoko Ishibashi (Author), Toshiro Kubota (Author), Masatoshi Imamura (Author), Hiroshi Azuma (Author)
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• Published: Elsevier, 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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In the present experiments, we tried to elucidate whether changes in arginase activity and protein expression of arginase I and II are involved in the occurrence of intimal hyperplasia in premenopausal human uterine arteries. They were obtained from thirty-four patients undergoing total abdominal hy...