Two-year follow-up of plasma leptin and other cytokines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 930-931

  Xibille Friedmann D ^a   Bustos Bahena, C ^b   Hernandez Gongora S ^a   Burgos Vargas, R ^a   Montiel Hernández, José Luis ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLOROQUINE; INTERLEUKIN 17; LEPTIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77951613182     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.111732     Document Type: Letter

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