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No association between CALCA polymorphisms and clinical outcome or serum procalcitonin levels in German polytrauma patients
Cytokine, 06/26/09
Hildebrand F et al. - CALCA polymorphisms are unlikely to influence clinical outcome in polytraumatized patients. Effects of microbial and inflammatory mediators, as well as other risk factors seem to have a more significant influence on the transcriptional regulation of CALCA and on PCT plasma concentrations than CALCA polymorphisms.
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