Serial monitoring of interleukin-1β, soluble interleukin-2 receptor and lipopolysaccharide binding protein levels after death: A comparative evaluation of potential postmortem markers of sepsis

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 80-87

  Reichelt, Uta ^a   Jung, Roman ^a   Nierhaus, Axel ^a   Tsokos, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1 ; Lipopolysaccharide binding protein; Postmortem; Sepsis; Soluble interleukin 2 receptor

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VENOUS BLOOD;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15244338553     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-004-0481-0     Document Type: Article

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