Is the cyclic GMP system underestimated by intensive care and emergency teams?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 564-567

  Evora, Paulo Roberto Barbosa ^a   Rodrigues, Alfredo José ^a   Vicente, Walter Vilella de Andrade ^a   Vicente, Yvone Avalloni de Andrade ^a   Basseto, Solange ^a   Basile Filho, Anibal ^a   Capellini, Verena K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; CYCLIC GMP; INOTROPIC AGENT; METHYLENE BLUE; METOPROLOL; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASOPRESSIN;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BURNING SENSATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPEPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPOTENSION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; VASOPLEGIA; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATECHOLAMINES; CYCLIC GMP; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LACTATES; METHYLENE BLUE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NOREPINEPHRINE; SHOCK;

EID: 34447287389     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.01.041     Document Type: Article

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