Calcitonin peptides - The mediators in sepsis or just another fairy tale?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1684-1687

  Christ Crain, Mirjam ^a   Müller, Beat ^a  

^a University Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calcitonin receptor; Mediator; Procalcitonin; Sepsis; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; AMYLIN; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN RECEPTOR; PROCALCITONIN; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN 1; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN 2; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN 3;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; EDITORIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS;

EID: 42949158824     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181726819     Document Type: Editorial

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