Correlation between serum gamma-glutamyl transferase activity and the platelet count

Platelets

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 333-336

  Bolodeoku, J A ^a   Ganotakis, E S ^a   Mikhailidis, D P ^a   Winder, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

EID: 0030706067     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537109777195     Document Type: Article

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