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  • Cystatin C in sera of patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma
    Softić, Adaleta ...
    Aim: To investigate the cystatin C levels in sera of patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma. Methods The levels of cystatin C in sera of lymphoma patients and control group consisted of ... healthy individuals, were measured by using speciic sandwich-type ELISA. For each patient the clinical stage of disease was determined according to Ann Arbor staging system for lymphomas. Results Our study shows that mean cystatin C serum level in the patients group (1056 65 ng/mL) was signiicantly higher when compared with the mean level of the healthy control group (819 28 ng/mL) (P=0,001). Mean cystatin C level of the group with clinical stages III and IV (1255 109 ng/mL) was significantly elevated when compared with the mean level of the group with clinical stages I and II (896 51 ng/mL) (P=0,03). Conclusion Thisinding points out a connection between inhibitor level and aggressive behaviour of lymphoma and could be considered for further strategies of prognosis of the disease.
    Source: Medicinski glasnik. - ISSN 1840-0132 (Vol. 8, no. 1, 2011, str. 97-100)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2011
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 2970737

source: Medicinski glasnik. - ISSN 1840-0132 (Vol. 8, no. 1, 2011, str. 97-100)

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