Increased serum granulocyte colony-stimulating factor correlates with coronary artery dilatation in Kawasaki disease

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 538-541

  Samada, Kazunori ^a   Igarashi, Hiroshi ^a   Shiraishi, Hirohiko ^a   Hatake, Kiyohiko ^b   Momoi, Mariko Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery dilatation; Granulocyte colony stimulating factor; Kawasaki disease; Macrophage colony stimulating factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ARTERIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY VESSELS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036392591     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-002-1018-5     Document Type: Article

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