Increased circulating granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in acute kawasaki disease

Pediatrics International

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 330-333

  Inoue, Yoshinari ^a   Kato, Masahiko ^a   Kobayashi, Toshihiro ^a   Shinohara, Makoto ^b   Sone, Katsuhiko ^b   Morikawa, Akihiro ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gumna Children S Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granulocyte colony stimulating factor; Kawasaki disease; Lipid peroxide

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LIPID PEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID PEROXIDES; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 0033054573     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200x.1999.01074.x     Document Type: Article

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