The anti-inflammatory effects of methane

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1269-1278

  Boros, Mihály ^a   Ghyczy, Miklós ^a   Irces, Dániel ^a   Varga, Gabriella ^a   Tokés, Tünde ^a   Kupai, Krisztina ^a   Torday, Csilla ^a   Kaszaki, József ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

hypoxia; inflammation; intestine; ischemia reperfusion; leukocyte; methane; methanogenesis; nitrosative stress; oxidative stress; redox homeostasis

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; METHANE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NITRITE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRANULOCYTE; HEMODYNAMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; REOXYGENATION; REPERFUSION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DOGS; GRANULOCYTES; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; METHANE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPERFUSION INJURY; SUPEROXIDES; TYROSINE;

EID: 84858797767     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31823dae05     Document Type: Article

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