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Isolated Lung Perfusion System in the Rabbit Model
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[The effect of NO-synthase inhibition on the blood oxygen transport function during fever in rabbits]
1State Medical Institute, 230015, Grodno, Gorky St., 80, Russia.
Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni I.M. Sechenova
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
I.v. administration of NG-nitro-L-arginine attenuated a fever response in rabbit. Preliminary administration of L-arginine for prevention of the NO-synthase inhibition suppressed the blood oxygen transport function and augmented the fever response.
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