C-reactive protein – My perspective on its first half century, 1930-1982
C-reactive protein (CRP) was discovered in 1930 in the sera of patients during the acute phase of pneumococcal pneumonia and was so named because it bound to the C-polysaccharide of the pneumococcal cell wall. During the next half century many questions raised by this discovery were answered. Phosph...
Main Author: | Irving Kushner |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150103/full |
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