Post-radiation syndrome as a NO/ONOO- cycle, chronic fatigue syndrome-like disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 537-541

  Pall, Martin L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXYNITRITE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SICKNESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 50449083288     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.05.023     Document Type: Article

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