Impaired generation of taurine chloramine by synovial fluid neutrophils of rheumatoid arthritis patients

Amino Acids

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 415-418

  Kontny, E ^a   Wojtecka Lukasik E ^b   Rell Bakalarska, K ^a   Dziewczopolski, W ^a   Maslinski W ^a,c   Maslinski S ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Department of Biochemistry ^*  (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovial fluid neutrophils; Taurine chloramine

Indexed keywords

TAURINE; TAURINE CHLORAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N CHLOROTAURINE; N-CHLOROTAURINE; ZYMOSAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; RESPIRATORY BURST; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TAURINE; ZYMOSAN;

EID: 17644433089     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-002-0205-z     Document Type: Article

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