Plasma tryptophan levels in the patients with cervicobrachial and lumbosacral pain syndromes

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 398, Issue , 1996, Pages 107-111

  Milovanovic, D D ^a   Stevanovic, H L ^b   Pavlovic, J ^a  

^a Health Center   (Serbia)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN; RECURRENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0030332930     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_17     Document Type: Article

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