Reproducibility and reliability of pleural fluid cytokine measurements

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1001-1003

  Bielsa, S ^a,d   Davies, H E ^b,c   Davies, R J O ^b,c   Taylor, A ^a   Lee, Y C G ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESOTHELIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

CATHETER; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; LETTER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUPERNATANT; THORACOCENTESIS;

CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 70349638761     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00088409     Document Type: Letter

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