Immune thrombocytopenia: Serum cytokine levels in children and adults

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 797-801

  Čulić, Srdana ^a   Salamunić, Ilza ^a   Konjevoda, Paško ^b   Dajak, Slavica ^a   Pavelić, Jasminka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Immune thrombocytopenia; Serum cytokines level

Indexed keywords

ALPHA1 INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROATIA; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERFERONS; INTERLEUKINS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84884943329     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.884017     Document Type: Article

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