| Literature DB >> 2880163 |
A Waage, A Halstensen, T Espevik.
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Serum samples taken on admission from 79 patients with meningococcal meningitis, septicaemia, or both, were examined in a highly sensitive bioassay for tumour necrosis factor (TNF). TNF was detected in samples from 10 of 11 patients who died but from only 8 of 68 survivors. All 5 patients with serum TNF levels over 440 units/ml (corresponding to 0.1 ng/ml recombinant TNF) died.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID： 2880163 DOI： 10.1016/s0140-6736(87)91728-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN： 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321