Baseline haptoglobin concentrations are repeatable and predictive of certain aspects of a subsequent experimentally-induced inflammatory response

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-15

  Matson, Kevin D ^a   Horrocks, Nicholas P C ^a   Versteegh, Maaike A ^a   Tieleman, B Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute phase proteins; Birds; Circannual patterns; Columbiformes; Ecological immunology; Inflammation; Lipopolysaccharide; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; GLUCOSE; HAPTOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PIGEON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBIFORMES;

EID: 84858332619     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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