Hydrogen as a novel and effective treatment of acute carbon monoxide poisoning

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-237

  Shen, Meihua ^a   He, Jian ^a   Cai, Jianmei ^b   Sun, Qiang ^b   Sun, Xuejun ^b   Huo, Zhenglu ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXYNITRITE; SCAVENGER; ANTIOXIDANT; GAS; PEROXYNITROUS ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NEUROPROTECTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPERFUSION INJURY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING; CELL DEATH; GAS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN; CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING; CELL DEATH; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; FREE RADICALS; GASES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 77954312539     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.02.029     Document Type: Article

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