Katacalcin and calcitonin immunoreactivity in different types of leukocytes indicate intracellular procalcitonin content

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-33

  Oberhoffer, Mathias ^a   Vogelsang, Heinz ^b   Jäger, Lothar ^b   Reinhart, Konrad ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; KATACALCIN; MARKER; PROCALCITONIN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEUKOCYTE; MONOCYTE; SEPSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0033060023     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-9441(99)90005-9     Document Type: Article

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