Serum and urine nitrate and nitrite are not reliable indicators of intrathecal nitric oxide production in acute brain injury

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Rejdak, K ^a,b   Petzold, A ^a   Sharpe, M A ^a   Smith, M ^c   Keir, G ^a   Stelmasiak, Z ^b   Thompson, E J ^a   Giovannoni, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assay; Body fluids; Nitrate; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; Vanadium

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; REAGENT; VANADIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY FLUID; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 0037445593     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(02)00412-4     Document Type: Article

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