The five cardinal signs of inflammation: Calor, dolor, rubor, tumor... and penuria (apologies to Aulus Cornelius Celsus, de medicina, c. A.D. 25)

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1051-1052

  Tracy, Russell P ^a  

^a University of Vermont Colchester Research Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; DROTRECOGIN;

AGING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BODY COMPOSITION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EDITORIAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33750906418     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/61.10.1051     Document Type: Editorial

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