Assessment of platelet activity as expressed by plasma levels of platelet factor 4 and β-thromboglobulin in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 515-518

  Kasperska Zajac, Alicja ^a   Rogala, Barbara ^a   Nowakowski, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

thromboglobulin; Chronic idiopathic urticaria; Platelet activity; Platelet factor 4

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHEMOKINE; BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ACTIVITY; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRICK TEST; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SKIN TEST; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-THROMBOGLOBULIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET FACTOR 4; URTICARIA;

EID: 21244455614     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2005.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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