Nitric oxide metabolities in acute rheumatic fever

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 135-139

  Narin, Figen ^a   Narin, Nazmi ^a   Psaoǧlu, Hatice ^a   Halici, Canan ^a   Aslan, Duran ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Interleukins; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-2; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642558065     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.199.135     Document Type: Article

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