Clinical importance of serum interleukin-18 and nitric oxide activities in breast carcinoma patients

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 663-667

  Günel, Nazan ^a,c   Coşkun, Uǧur ^a   Sancak, Banu ^a   Günel, Uǧur ^b   Hasdemir, Oǧuz ^b   Bozkurt, Şükrü ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bone; Breast carcinoma; IL 18; Nitrate and nitrite; Nitric oxide; Serum

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 18; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-18; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES;

EID: 0036682446     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10705     Document Type: Article

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