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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-6-3
pubmed:abstractText
Human nerve growth factor (NGF) serum concentrations were measured in a healthy sample of 126 participants by a modified highly sensitive and specific two-site enzyme immunoassay. The measured NGF concentrations differ considerably from a normal distribution. The median NGF concentration was 19.68 pg/ml with an interquartile range of 11.06-41.74 pg/ml, which means that 50% of the NGF levels are in this range. In our healthy sample, we found no gender differences but a slight age-related decrease of NGF (r=-0.1326, P=0.1560). Moreover intraindividual stability of NGF was examined in ten volunteers, where no significant changes of serum NGF concentrations were detected over 4 weeks. This stability of our repetitive measurements over 4 weeks suggests that this neurotrophin may be an intraindividually solid marker at least in human serum.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0304-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
344
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Nerve growth factor serum concentrations in healthy human volunteers: physiological variance and stability.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Berlin, Eschenallee 3, 14050 Berlin, Germany. undine.lang@medizin.fu-berlin.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article