Serum levels of leptin and proinflammatory cytokines in patients with advanced-stage cancer at different sites

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 554-561

  Mantovani, Giovanni ^a   Macciò, Antonio ^b   Mura, Loredana ^a   Massa, Elena ^a   Mudu, Maria Caterina ^a   Mulas, Carlo ^a   Lusso, Maria Rita ^a   Madeddu, Clelia ^a   Dessì, Annita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Carbonia Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer anorexia cachexia; Immunological aspects; Leptin; Nutritional status; Proinflammatory cytokines

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CELL ISOLATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EATING HABIT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NIGHT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CACHEXIA; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0034501356     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001090000137     Document Type: Article

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