Interleukin-18 as a novel diagnostic marker and indicator of disease severity in adult-onset Still's disease

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1716-1717

  Kawaguchi, Yasushi ^a   Terajima, Hisae ^a   Harigai, Masayoshi ^a   Hara, Masako ^a   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-18; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 0034933401     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200107)44:7<1716::AID-ART298>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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