Xanthine oxidase activity and free radical generation in patients with sepsis syndrome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1649-1653

  Galley, Helen F ^a   Davies, Michael J ^b   Webster, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical illness; free radicals; ischemia; lactate; oxygen; sepsis; septicemia; shock, septic; xanthine oxidase

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; LIPID PEROXIDE; OXIDIZING AGENT; SCAVENGER; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; LACTATES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

EID: 0029860081     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199610000-00008     Document Type: Article

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