Protective effect of N-acetylcysteine on multiple organ failure induced by zymosan in the rat

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1524-1532

  Cuzzocrea, Salvatore ^a   Costantino, Giuseppina ^a   Mazzon, Emanuela ^a   Caputi, Achille P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydroxyl radical; Inflammation; N acetylcysteine; Nitric oxide; Peroxynitrite; Superoxide; Zymosan

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NITRATE; PEROXYNITRITE; ZYMOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; PERITONITIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; ZYMOSAN;

EID: 0032838589     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199908000-00021     Document Type: Article

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