Interleukin-1β levels in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of children with febrile seizures

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-36

  Lahat, Eliezer ^a,b   Livne, Moshe ^a   Barr, Joseph ^a   Katz, Yitzhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 0030612597     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(97)00034-9     Document Type: Article

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