Renal failure: A state of nitric oxide deficiency?

Kidney International

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1356-1357

  Ketteler, M ^a   Ritz, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; End stage renal disease; Excretion of NOx; Hypertension; L arginine; Uremia

Indexed keywords

N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ATHEROGENESIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREMIA; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0033850039     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00294.x     Document Type: Editorial

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