Pulmonary blast injury increases nitric oxide production, disturbs arginine metabolism, and alters the plasma free amino acid pool in rabbits during the early posttraumatic period

Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-128

  Žunić, Gordana ^a   Pavlović, Radmila ^b   Maličević, Živorad ^a   Savić, Veljko ^a   Cernak, Ibolja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Medical Chemistry

Author keywords

Arginine; Blast injury; Nitrates

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LUNG INJURY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; UREA CYCLE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0034116701     PISSN: 10898603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/niox.2000.0276     Document Type: Article

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