Urinary neopterin and kynurenine in patients submitted to surgical stress with different inhalational anesthetics (halothane or isoflurane)

International Journal of Immunopharmacology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 423-433

  Marfella, Antonio ^a   Bilancio, Antonio ^a   Polese, Claudio ^a   Iodice, Francesco ^b   Edmondo, Cesareo ^c   Cerasuolo, Dionigio ^a   Esposito, Giuseppe ^d   Zannoni, Vincenzo ^a   Beneduce, Gerardo ^a  

^a Servizio di Patologia Clinica   (Italy)

^b Divisione di Ginecologia   (Italy)

^c Ist Naz Stud Cura T   (Italy)

^d Servizio di Medicina Nucleare   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anesthetical surgical stress; Halothane; Immune activation markers; Isoflurane; Kynurenine and Neopterin

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; ATROPINE; DIAZEPAM; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KYNURENINE; NEOPTERIN; NITROUS OXIDE; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRACARDIAC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL STRESS; URINE LEVEL; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; FEMALE; HALOTHANE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOFLURANE; KYNURENINE; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPTERIN; STRESS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033051241     PISSN: 01920561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0192-0561(99)00021-1     Document Type: Article

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