A method for extracting muscle information from serum creatine kinase measurements - Its potential value in the monitoring and management of inflammatory muscle disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 476-485

  Golding, R M ^a   Giles, L G F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATINE KINASE; PREDNISOLONE; TRANDOLAPRIL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL;

ANIMALS; AZATHIOPRINE; CREATINE KINASE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENZYME TESTS; HUMANS; INDOLES; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DISEASES; POLYMYOSITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 30344473979     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.042     Document Type: Article

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