Acute kidney injury with sepsis: Is nitric oxide a friend, foe, both, or neither?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2511-2512

  Anderson, Robert J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; nitric oxide; sepsis

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; MACULA DENSA; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GUANIDINES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RENAL CIRCULATION; SEPSIS;

EID: 84864271410     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318255d7b4     Document Type: Editorial

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