Serum levels of the soluble interleukin-2 receptor in vitiligo patients in UAE

European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 109-111

  Galadari, I ^a,b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b AL AIN HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VITILIGO;

ADULT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SOLUBILITY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VITILIGO;

EID: 17144410810     PISSN: 03979148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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