Bench-to-bedside review: The role of glycosaminoglycans in respiratory disease

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Souza Fernandes, Alba B ^a   Pelosi, Paolo ^b   Rocco, Patricia R M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; ANTITHROMBIN III; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; DERMATAN SULFATE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN POLYSULFATE; HEPARAN SULFATE; HEPARIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; KERATAN SULFATE; PLACEBO; PROTEOGLYCAN; SURFACTANT; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COVALENT BOND; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG BURN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INJURY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE PRESSURE; TISSUE REPAIR; BIOMECHANICS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES;

EID: 34447622504     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5069     Document Type: Review

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