Plasma nitrogen oxides and blood lactate concentrations in Ghanaian children with malaria

• Main Authors: Tsiri Agbenyega, Brian Angus, George Bedu-Addo, Benjamin Baffoe-Bonnie, George Griffin, Patrick Vallance, Sanjeev Krishna
• Other Authors: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/18000
• Institution: Mahidol University

Nitric oxide is an important host defence molecule as well as being a mediator in many pathophysiological processes. To investigate its role in severe malaria, we measured plasma nitrate and nitrite concentrations in 70 children with malaria (54 with severe malaria) and 48 control subjects (33 with...