Nitric oxide and inflammation: The answer is blowing in the wind

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-31

  Lundberg, J O N ^a   Lundberg, J M ^a   Alving, K ^a   Weitzberg, E ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ASTHMA; CYSTITIS; ENTERITIS; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ASTHMA; CYSTITIS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; NITRIC OXIDE;

EID: 0031035522     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0197-30     Document Type: Review

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