Impaired tuftsin activity in cirrhosis: Relationship with splenic function and clinical outcome

Gut

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 707-712

  Trevisani, F ^a   Castelli, E ^a   Foschi, F G ^a   Parazza, M ^a   Loggi, E ^a   Bertelli, M ^a   Melotti, C ^a   Domenicali, M ^a   Zoli, G ^a   Bernardi, M ^a  

^a Semeiotica Medica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TUFTSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; TUFTSIN;

EID: 0036114267     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.50.5.707     Document Type: Article

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