IL-15 levels in patients with acute hepatic failure

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 115-116, Issue , 2004, Pages 5-14

  Yonekawa, Chikara ^a   Nakae, Hajime ^a   Zheng, Ya Juan ^a   Wada, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Tajimi, Kimitaka ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatic failure; IL 18; IL 6; Interleukin (IL) 15; Liver injury; Liver injury in humans; Mice; Patients; Proinflammatory cytokines; Survival

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 6; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BILIRUBIN; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; NAFAMSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVOR; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMOFILTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; BILIRUBIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GUANIDINES; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-18; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447282797     PISSN: 10780297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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