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Bleeding duodenal ulcer and association with polymorphism of endothelial constitutive nitric oxide synthase gene.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 May 2002
Serrano Trinidad, Piazuelo Elena, Benito Rafael, Santolaria Santos, Lanas Angel
Abstract excerpt
Nitric oxide (NO) exerts both protective and proinflammatory actions in the gastrointestinal tract. Enhanced gastric NO synthase (NOS) activity has been shown in duodenal ulcer patients. Recently, intron-4 polymorphism of the endothelial constitutive (ec) NOS gene has been associated with some pathological conditions. Our aim was to determine the genotype and allele frequencies of the ecNOS4 polymorphism in...
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