Relation between serum interleukin-6 and thyroid hormone concentrations in 270 hospital in-patients with non-thyroidal illness

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-205

  Davies, Peter H ^a,b   Black, Elizabeth G ^a   Sheppard, Michael C ^a   Franklyn, Jayne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030049948     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.668489.x     Document Type: Article

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