Neutrophil nuclear segmentation in mild cobalamin deficiency: Relation to metabolic tests of cobalamin status and observations on ethnic differences in neutrophil segmentation

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-63

  Carmel, Ralph ^a   Green, Ralph ^b   Jacobsen, Donald W ^b   Qian, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Cobalamin deficiency; Deoxyuridine suppression; Homocysteine; Methylmalonic acid; Neutrophil

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029950807     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/106.1.57     Document Type: Article

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