Interleukin-8 levels in seminal plasma in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and nonspecific urethritis

BJU International

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1043-1046

  Khadra, Abbas ^a,c   Fletcher, Patricia ^a   Luzzi, Graz ^b   Shattock, Robin ^a   Hay, Phillip ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WYCOMBE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic pelvic pain syndrome; Cytokines; Nonspecific urethritis; Prostatitis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIRST PASS EFFECT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; PELVIC PAIN; PROSTATITIS; SEMEN; SYNDROME; URETHRITIS;

EID: 33645735878     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06133.x     Document Type: Article

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