Gout: The mechanism of urate crystal nucleation and growth. A hypothesis based in facts

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Pascual, Eliseo ^a   Martínez, Agustín ^b   Ordóñez, Salvador ^c  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; URATE;

BIOMINERALIZATION; CARTILAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GOUT; HUMAN; LIGAMENT; NONHUMAN; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TENDON;

CALCULI; CRYSTALLIZATION; GOUT; HUMANS; LITHIASIS; URIC ACID;

EID: 84872837135     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: 17787254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2012.08.012     Document Type: Editorial

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