The interleukin-6 gene and critical illness: Is inflammatory gene variation the key to personalized medicine in the intensive care unit?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1647-1649

  Christie, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Interleukin 6; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA STABILITY; SEPSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 42949166800     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318170f25e     Document Type: Editorial

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