Divisions of Molecular Medicine and Cardiology, Departments of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Correspondence to Hua Cai, MD, PhD, Divisions of Molecular Medicine and Cardiology, Departments of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Tel: +1 310 267 2303; fax: +1 310 825 0132; e-mail: [email protected]
Abbreviations: 6R-H4B, sapropterin dihydrochloride; AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm; ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme; ADMA, asymmetric dimethylarginine; Ang II, angiotensin II; BAEC, bovine aortic endothelial cell; Cav-1, caveolin-1; cGMP, 3′,5′-cyclic-guanosine monophosphate; CKD, chronic kidney failure; DHFR, dihydrofolate reductase; DOCA, deoxycorticosterone acetate; eNOS, endothelial nitric oxide synthase; FAD, flavin adenine dinucleotide; FMN, flavin mononucleotide; GTPCHI, GTP cyclohydrolase I; H2B, dihydrobiopterin; H4B, tetrahydrobiopterin; iNOS, inducible nitric oxide synthase; NADPH, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; nNOS, neuronal nitric oxide synthase; NOX, NADPH oxidase; PKG, cGMP-dependent protein kinase; SHR, spontaneously hypertensive rat; SPR, sepiapterin reductase
Received 7 October, 2014
Revised 4 March, 2015
Accepted 4 March, 2015
