Concentration of cortisol in the synovial fluid of patients with untreated rheumatoid arthritis. Relation to in vitro IL-8 production by synovial mononuclear cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 876, Issue , 1999, Pages 255-258

  Perotti, L A ^a   Peretti, L ^a   Lovino, C ^a   Masera, R G ^b   Sartori, M L ^b   Angeli, A ^b  

^a S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIOCYTE;

EID: 0032809902     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07646.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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