Establishment of age-dependent reference values for IgA subclasses

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 328, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 129-133

  Schauer, Uwe ^a   Stemberg, Frank ^a   Rieger, Christian H L ^a   Borte, Michael ^b   Schubert, Simone ^b   Riedel, Frank ^c   Herz, Udo ^d   Renz, Harald ^d   Wick, Manfred ^e   Herzog, Wilhelm ^f  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f Binding Site Group Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adult; Age factors; Blood classification; Child; Human; Infant; Reference values

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUBCLASS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNONEPHELOMETRY; MALE; NEPHELOMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037307349     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(02)00418-7     Document Type: Article

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