Neutrophil function during pregnancy: Is nitric oxide production correlated with superoxide production?

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-105

  Tsukimori, Kiyomi ^a   Fukushima, Kotaro ^b   Komatsu, Hajime ^a   Nakano, Hitoo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neutrophil; Nitric oxide; Pregnancy; Superoxide anion

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DERIVATIVE; CHEMOTACTIC PEPTIDE; CYTOCHROME C; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NEUTROPHIL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE; NEUTROPHILS; NITRIC OXIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 33644675713     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2005.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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