cAMP and cGMP in nasal mucus related to severity of smell loss in patients with smell dysfunction

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Henkin, Robert I ^a,b   Velicu, I ^a  

^a Taste and Smell Clinic   (United States)

^b Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP;

ADULT; AGED; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE MUCUS; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TASTE DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE MUCOSA; ODOR; PATHOLOGY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; OLFACTION DISORDERS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SMELL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 44049098045     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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