Mixed exhaled nitric oxide and plasma nitrites and nitrates in newborn infants

Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 2789-2797

  Biban, Paolo ^a,b   Zangardi, Tiziana ^a   Baraldi, Eugenio ^a   Dussini, Noemi ^a   Chiandetti, Lino ^a   Zacchello, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exhaled air; Newborn infant; Nitrate; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREATH TESTS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES;

EID: 0035843982     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(01)01086-4     Document Type: Article

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