Vagal system impairment in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients with chronic hepatitis C: Does hepatic glutathione deficiency have a pathogenetic role?

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1261-1266

  Barbaro, G ^a   Di Lorenzo, G D I ^a   Soldini, M ^a   Bellomo, G ^a   Belloni, G ^a   Grisorio, B ^a   Barbarini, G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Autonomic system; Chronic hepatitis C; Hepatitis C virus; Human immunodeficiency virus; R R interval variation; Reduced glutathione

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0031452009     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365529709028157     Document Type: Article

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