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Bedside procalcitonin and acute care

Procalcitonin (PCT) is a 116-amino acid protein with a sequence identical to that of the prohormone of calcitonin. Under normal conditions a specific protease cleaves all PCT to calcitonin, katacalcin and an N-terminal residue and hence in healthy individual PCT levels are either too low or undetect...

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Autores principales: Singh, Manpreet, Anand, Lakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25337486
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.141437