Applications for acute phase reactants (APRs) in nondomesticated mammals include identifying inflammatory disease, monitoring the course of specific disease processes and recovery during rehabilitation, detecting preclinical ...

BACKGROUND: South Africa has the highest prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the world, and is commonly found in association with appendicitis. Atypical presentation of appendicitis in the presence ...

Forty-eight patients were subdivided according to C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, resulting in 19 patients with normal (2.8 ± 2.8mg/L) and 29 with elevated (82.2 ± 76.2mg/L) CRP levels. The elevated CRP group had iron ...

Although co-inhibitory immune checkpoint proteins are primarily involved in promoting cell-cell interactions that suppress adaptive immunity, especially tumor immunity, the soluble cell-free variants of these molecules ...