Assessment of serum nitrite as biomarker of disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis

Indian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 47-50

  Kumar, Ashok ^a   Falodia, S K ^a   Shankar, S ^b   Grover, R ^a   Marwaha, V ^c   Aneja, R ^a   Srivastava, K ^a   Das, N ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c Department of Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

Inflammatory; Low back pain; Mechanical; Serum nitrite

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; NITRITE;

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE MARKER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84992254981     PISSN: 09733698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0973-3698(10)60173-2     Document Type: Article

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