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Nitric oxide synthase isoforms during fracture healing. 2001

W Zhu, and A D Diwan, and J H Lin, and G A Murrell

Orthopedic Research Institute, St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

We have shown previously that nitric oxide (NO) has regulatory effects on fracture healing. Our aim here was to investigate the temporal expression patterns of the three NO synthase (NOS) isoforms that are responsible for the generation of NO by semiquantitative competitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and immunoblot analysis after femoral fractures in rats. We found that 4 days after fracture, there were increases in the levels of messenger RNA (mRNA) for all three NOS isoforms, with peaks for the inducible NOS (iNOS; 35-fold increase, p < 0.05) at day 4, the endothelial NOS (eNOS; 5-fold increase, p < 0.05) at day 7, and the neuronal NOS (bNOS; 16-fold increase, p < 0.05) at day 21. At a protein level, the time course expression of NOS isoforms was consistent with the results of those at the mRNA level. In addition, we have previously reported a 2.5-fold increase in NOS activity detected by [3H]arginine to [3H]citrulline conversion at day 15 compared with that at day 4 after fracture. The findings that the expression of NOS isoforms during fracture healing is type specific and time dependent are important and may have clinical applications in the regulation of bone repair by NOS inhibitors or stimulators at different stages after injury.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007527	Isoenzymes	Structurally related forms of an enzyme. Each isoenzyme has the same mechanism and classification, but differs in its chemical, physical, or immunological characteristics.	Alloenzyme,Allozyme,Isoenzyme,Isozyme,Isozymes,Alloenzymes,Allozymes
D008297	Male		Males
D005264	Femoral Fractures	Fractures of the femur.	Femoral Fracture,Fracture, Femoral,Fractures, Femoral
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D015153	Blotting, Western	Identification of proteins or peptides that have been electrophoretically separated by blot transferring from the electrophoresis gel to strips of nitrocellulose paper, followed by labeling with antibody probes.	Immunoblotting, Western,Western Blotting,Western Immunoblotting,Blot, Western,Immunoblot, Western,Western Blot,Western Immunoblot,Blots, Western,Blottings, Western,Immunoblots, Western,Immunoblottings, Western,Western Blots,Western Blottings,Western Immunoblots,Western Immunoblottings
D016133	Polymerase Chain Reaction	In vitro method for producing large amounts of specific DNA or RNA fragments of defined length and sequence from small amounts of short oligonucleotide flanking sequences (primers). The essential steps include thermal denaturation of the double-stranded target molecules, annealing of the primers to their complementary sequences, and extension of the annealed primers by enzymatic synthesis with DNA polymerase. The reaction is efficient, specific, and extremely sensitive. Uses for the reaction include disease diagnosis, detection of difficult-to-isolate pathogens, mutation analysis, genetic testing, DNA sequencing, and analyzing evolutionary relationships.	Anchored PCR,Inverse PCR,Nested PCR,PCR,Anchored Polymerase Chain Reaction,Inverse Polymerase Chain Reaction,Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction,PCR, Anchored,PCR, Inverse,PCR, Nested,Polymerase Chain Reactions,Reaction, Polymerase Chain,Reactions, Polymerase Chain
D017102	Fracture Healing	The physiological restoration of bone tissue and function after a fracture. It includes BONY CALLUS formation and normal replacement of bone tissue.	Fracture Healings,Healing, Fracture,Healings, Fracture
D017207	Rats, Sprague-Dawley	A strain of albino rat used widely for experimental purposes because of its calmness and ease of handling. It was developed by the Sprague-Dawley Animal Company.	Holtzman Rat,Rats, Holtzman,Sprague-Dawley Rat,Rats, Sprague Dawley,Holtzman Rats,Rat, Holtzman,Rat, Sprague-Dawley,Sprague Dawley Rat,Sprague Dawley Rats,Sprague-Dawley Rats
D051381	Rats	The common name for the genus Rattus.	Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus
D052247	Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II	A CALCIUM-independent subtype of nitric oxide synthase that may play a role in immune function. It is an inducible enzyme whose expression is transcriptionally regulated by a variety of CYTOKINES.	INOS Enzyme,Inducible NOS Protein,Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase,NOS-II,Nitric Oxide Synthase II,Nitric Oxide Synthase, Type II,NOS II

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