Molecular aspects and natural source of procalcitonin

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 789-797

  Russwurm, Stefan ^b   Wiederhold, Matthias ^b   Oberhoffer, Mathias ^b   Stonans, Ilmars ^b   Zipfel, Peter F ^a   Reinhart, Konrad ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Calc I gene; Monocytes; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOKINE; MARKER; PROCALCITONIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCITONIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 3042811892     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.119     Document Type: Review

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