Serum values of proinflammatory cytokines are inversely correlated with serum leptin levels in patients with advanced stage cancer at different sites

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 406-414

  Mantovani, Giovanni ^a   Macciò, Antonio ^b   Madeddu, Clelia ^a   Mura, Loredana ^a   Massa, Elena ^a   Mudu, Maria ^a   Mulas, Carlo ^a   Lusso, Maria ^a   Gramignano, Giulia ^a   Piras, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Sirai Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cancer patients; Cancer related anorexia cachexia; Leptin; Proinflammatory cytokines

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CACHEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0034921436     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001090100234     Document Type: Article

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