Gender-related analysis of thrombopoietic cytokine pattern in patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 876, Issue , 1999, Pages 387-390

  Balleari, Enrico ^a,b   Ghirlanda, P ^a   Garre S ^a   Casciaro, S ^a   Massa, G ^a   Ghio, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 6; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MALE; SERUM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032805364     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07662.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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