Urinary nitrite/nitrate excretion in infancy: Comparison between term and preterm infants

Early Human Development

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-56

  Tsukahara, Hirokazu ^a   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a   Hori, Chikahide ^a   Tsuchida, Shinya ^a   Hata, Ikeue ^a   Nishida, Kouichi ^a   Kikuchi, Kiyoshi ^b   Sudo, Masakatsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infant; Nitric oxide; NO2 and NO3 ; Urine

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURITY; REFERENCE VALUE; URINARY EXCRETION;

AGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031019736     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01768-9     Document Type: Article

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