title: Endogenous nitrate synthesis in selected infectious diseases and ulcerative colitis.
abstract: Investigations into acute and chronic diarrheal patients confirmed the results of animal experiments on the role of cytotoxic activated macrophages in endogenous formation of nitrates. Because a number of inflammatory diseases did not cause a nitrate release in urine, blood, and saliva, the general importance of nitrates to characterize the initiation and course of inflammations must be questioned.
authors.affiliation: Research Branch Berlin-Buch, Research Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, FRG.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wettig
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scheibe
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Diener
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Namaschk
mesh_terms: D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000378:metabolism*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000378:metabolism*; D009566:Nitrates / Q000378:metabolism*; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009566:Nitrates