Production of procalcitonin (PCT) in non-thyroidal tissue after LPS injection

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 290-295

  Morgenthaler, N G ^a   Struck, J ^a   Chancerelle, Y ^b   Weglohner W ^a   Agay, D ^b   Bohuon, C ^c   Suarez Domenech, V ^d   Bergmann, A ^a   Muller B ^d  

^a BRAHMS AG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal Model; Baboons; Calcitonin Precursors; Hormokines; PCT

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CALCITONIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROCALCITONIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BABOON; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PAPIO; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETINAE; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0041928169     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-41304     Document Type: Article

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