Affiliation:
1. Clinic of Paediatrics, Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Medical University of Gdansk, ul. Nowe Ogrody 1-6, 80-803 Gdansk, Poland
Abstract
Abstract
Neopterin is one of biochemical markers of immune activity, which seems to be useful in monitoring inflammatory diseases. Increased serum concentration of neopterin is observed in conditions with cell-mediated immune response involvement. In clinical practice, neopterin evaluation is applied in medical conditions such as: infectious diseases, oncology, rheumatology, transplantology, transfusiology, cardiology, neurology and many others. Neopterin can be detected in serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, saliva, ascitic fluid, bile, pancreatic juice and gastric juice. In recently published studies, various non-specific indicators of inflammation such as neopterin, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin were compared and proved to be independently useful.
Subject
Clinical Biochemistry,Molecular Medicine,Biochemistry
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