The Effect of Cigarette Smoking on the Levels of Nitric Oxide Metabolites in the Sputum of Patients with Acute Asthma
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Asthma
- Vol. 39 (3) , 211-216
- https://doi.org/10.1081/jas-120002470
Abstract
Cigarette smoking may reduce the production of endogenous nitric oxide (NO), which plays an important role in inflammation of the asthmatic airway. NO metabolites in sputum were measured in 11 ciga...Keywords
This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
- Nitric oxide metabolites in induced sputum: a marker of airway inflammation in asthmatic subjectsClinical and Experimental Allergy, 1999
- NO or no NO in asthma?Thorax, 1996
- Nitro containing L-arginine analogs interfere with assays for nitrate and nitriteLife Sciences, 1995
- Nitric oxide and asthmatic inflammationImmunology Today, 1995
- The evaluation of a cell dispersion method of sputum examinationClinical and Experimental Allergy, 1994
- Increased nitric oxide in exhaled air of asthmatic patientsPublished by Elsevier ,1994
- Relationships of haptoglobin level to FEV1, wheezing, bronchial hyper‐responsiveness and allergyClinical and Experimental Allergy, 1991
- Induction of nitric oxide synthase by cytokines in vascular smooth muscle cellsFEBS Letters, 1990
- Anti-inflammatory glucocorticoids inhibit the induction by endotoxin of nitric oxide synthase in the lung, liver and aorta of the ratBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 1990
- Nitric oxide as an inhibitory non-adrenergic non-cholinergic neurotransmitterNature, 1990