The many faces of sepsis-induced vascular failure

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 947-949

  Ma, Penglin ^a   Danner, Robert L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypotension; Nitric oxide; Norepinephrine; Peroxynitrite; Septic shock; Superoxide

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENOMEDULLIN; ANGIOTENSIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DOPAMINE; ENDORPHIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; HISTAMINE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PEROXYNITRITE; PROSTACYCLIN; SUPEROXIDE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; THROMBOXANE A2; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; EDITORIAL; HYPOTENSION; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTIC SHOCK; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0036221186     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200204000-00049     Document Type: Editorial

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