Chapter 16 Reductive Gas-Phase Chemiluminescence and Flow Injection Analysis for Measurement of the Nitric Oxide Pool in Biological Matrices

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 295-315

  Hendgen Cotta, Ulrike ^a   Grau, Marijke ^a   Rassaf, Tienush ^a   Gharini, Putrika ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a   Kleinbongard, Petra ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE;

BLOOD; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; GAS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NITROSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ANIMALS; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 52049111565     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)01216-0     Document Type: Chapter

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