Increased cerebrospinal fluid nitrite and nitrate levels in patients with lumbar spondylosis

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Asahara, Hiroshi ^a   Yokoi, Isao ^a   Tamada, Toshihumi ^a   Kabuto, Hideaki ^a   Ogawab, Norio ^b   Mori, Akitane ^a   Inoue, Hajime ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0029670653     PISSN: 10780297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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