Serum IL-18 levels in patients with various hematological disorders

Haematologia

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-33

  Takubo, T ^a   Ohkura, H ^a   Kumura, T ^a   Ohta, K ^a   Yamane, T ^a   Hino, M ^a   Kamitani, T ^a   Tatsumi, N ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hematological disorders; IL 18

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-18; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NEOPLASM PROTEINS;

EID: 0033644342     PISSN: 00176559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685590051129850     Document Type: Article

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