Rectal Nitric Oxide Gas and Stool Cytokine Levels during the Course of Infectious Gastroenteritis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 250-254

  Enocksson, Anders ^a   Lundberg, Jon ^b   Weitzberg, Eddie ^a   Norrby Teglund, Anna ^a   Svenungsson, Bo ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BALLOON CATHETER; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLATULENCE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SHIGELLA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOKINES; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; RECTUM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 1642276194     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.2.250-254.2004     Document Type: Article

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