Live and let die: Asymmetric dimethylarginine and septic shock

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Böger, Rainer H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; ARGININE; N,N-DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARGININE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 34447624325     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5076     Document Type: Note

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