Alcohol
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 195-202 , April 2004

Acute ethanol exposure modulates expression of inducible nitric-oxide synthase in human astroglia: evidence for a transcriptional mechanism

  • Randall L Davis

      Affiliations

    • Alcohol and Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 79430-0001, USA
    • ,
  • Peter J Syapin

      Affiliations

    • Alcohol and Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 79430-0001, USA
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 79430-0001, USACorresponding Author Information

Received 6 November 2003 ,Revised 10 January 2004 ,Accepted 11 January 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2004.01.006

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