Antioxidant levels in the nasal mucosa of patients with chronic sinusitis and healthy controls

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-204

  Westerveld, Gerrit Jan ^a   Dekker, Ingrid ^b   Voss, Hans Peter ^b   Bast, Aalt ^b   Scheeren, Robert A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE MUCOSA;

EID: 0031053658     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.1997.01900020089013     Document Type: Article

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