A sensitive sandwich ELISA for measuring thrombopoietin in human serum: Serum thrombopoietin levels in healthy volunteers and in patients with haemopoietic disorders

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 783-788

  Tahara, Tomoyuki ^a   Usuki, Kensuke ^b   Sato, Hiroaki ^a   Ohashi, Hideya ^a   Morita, Haruhiko ^a   Tsumura, Haruhiko ^a   Matsumoto, Atsushi ^a   Miyazaki, Hiroshi ^a   Urabe, Akio ^b   Kato, Takashi ^a  

^a KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^b Kanto Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Mpl ligand; ELISA; haemopoietic disorders; thrombopoietin

Indexed keywords

THROMBOPOIETIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; THROMBOCYTHEMIA;

EID: 8944258119     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1996.d01-1741.x     Document Type: Article

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