Temporary axonal conduction block and axonal loss in inflammatory neurological disease. A potential role for nitric oxide?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 893, Issue , 1999, Pages 304-308

  Kapoor, R ^a   Davies, M ^a   Smith, K J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033378101     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07843.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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