Nitrate-nitrite-nitric oxide pathway: Implications for anesthesiology and intensive care

Anesthesiology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1460-1475

  Weitzberg, Eddie ^a   Hezel, Michael ^a   Lundberg, Jon O ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; NITROGEN OXIDE; PLACEBO; POTASSIUM NITRATE; SODIUM NITRATE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; BEETROOT; BLOOD FLOW; CELL METABOLISM; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 78650170793     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181fcf3cc     Document Type: Review

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