Cerebrospinal fluid levels of neopterin in child patients with neurological diseases-in correlation with IFN-γ or TNF-α

Pteridines

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-31

  Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Fukunaga, Yoshitaka ^b   Kuwabara, Kentaro ^a   Fujita, Takehisa ^a   Fujino, Osamu ^a   Hashimoto, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL MUSASHI KOSUGI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); Febrile convulsion (FC); Neopterin; Non pheocytotic CSF

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; NEOPTERIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032977781     PISSN: 09334807     EISSN: 21954720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/pteridines.1999.10.1.27     Document Type: Article

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