Evaluation of serum leptin concentration in Behçet's disease with ocular involvement

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1158-1160

  Kavuncu, Sevim ^a,b   Koç, Feray ^a   Kurt, Melih ^a   Eryüksel, Buǧra ^a   Ortaç, Serap ^a   Özdal, Pinar ^a   Firat, Esin ^a  

^a Social Insurance Association Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Leptin; Ocular involvement

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; CYCLOSPORIN; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 31144457482     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-1189-7     Document Type: Article

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