Interleukin 8 as a vaso-occlusive marker in Brazilian patients with sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease has a worldwide distribution and is a public health problem in Brazil. Although vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) is one of the most important clinical features of the disease, there are still several steps of its pathogenesis which are unknown. The increase of the chemotactic factor i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2001-10-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2001001000011 |