Pentane measurement in ventilated infants using a commercially available system

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 895-900

  Drury, Josephine A ^a   Nycyk, Julie A ^a   Cooke, Richard W I ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breath pentane; lipid peroxidation; preterm neonate

Indexed keywords

PENTANE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; PENTANES; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 0031025209     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(96)00480-7     Document Type: Article

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