The pathophysiological significance of red blood cell nitric oxide concentrations in inflammatory Behçet's disease

Mediators of Inflammation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 255-256

  Evereklioglu, Cem ^a,c   Çekmen, Mustafa ^b   Özkiriş, Abdullah ^a   Karabaş, Levent ^b   Çaliş, Mustafa ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE;

ADULT; BEHCET DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BEHCET SYNDROME; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE;

EID: 0142093532     PISSN: 09629351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09629350310001599710     Document Type: Letter

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