From bedside to the Bench and Back: Nitric oxide and the cutis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 889-900

  Qureshi, Cutis Abrar A ^a   Lerner, Lisa H ^a   Lerner, Ethan A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

CELL DEGENERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN INFLAMMATION; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; VASODILATATION; VITILIGO;

BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NITRIC OXIDE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0008457860     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.132.8.889     Document Type: Review

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