Plasma nitrite and Nitrate levels as a noninvasive marker of pathology after human small bowel transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 307-311

  Sun, Yimin ^a   Zhu, Zhen ^a   Langnas, Alan N ^a   Grant, Wendy J ^a   Botha, Jean F ^a   Zhao, Yong ^b   Sudan, Debra L ^c   Mercer, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Noninvasive markers; Rejection; Small bowel transplantation

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRATE; NITRITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE GRAFT EJECTION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NITRATE BLOOD LEVEL; NITRITE BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 76649092644     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181c9b5c4     Document Type: Article

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