Optimal timing of repeated rh-erythropoietin administration improves its effectiveness in stimulating erythropoiesis in healthy volunteers

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 295-301

  Breymann, Christian ^a,b   Bauer, Christian ^a   Major, Attila ^a   Zimmermann, Roland ^a   Gautschi, Kurt ^a   Huch, Albert ^a   Huch, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pharmacodynamics; Recombinant human erythropoietin; Reticulocyte and red blood cell flow cytometry; Time interval; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETICULOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0030071458     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1996.d01-1501.x     Document Type: Article

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