YKL-40, a matrix protein of specific granules in neutrophils, is elevated in serum of patients with community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1722-1726

  Nordenbaek, Claudia ^a   Johansen, Julia S ^b   Junker, Peter ^a   Borregaard, Niels ^c   Sørensen, Ole ^c   Price, Paul A ^d  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GELATINASE; LACTOFERRIN; LIPOCALIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PIVAMPICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032704645     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315050     Document Type: Article

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