Burns
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 335-342 , May 2010

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor—A potential diagnostic tool in severe burn injuries?

  • Gerrit Grieb

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally to this study.
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  • David Simons

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally to this study.
    • ,
  • Andrzej Piatkowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    • ,
  • Jürgen Bernhagen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    • ,
  • Guy Steffens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstrasse 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany. Tel.: +49 241 8088843; fax: +49 241 8082427.
    • ,
  • Norbert Pallua

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

,Accepted 17 April 2009.

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PII: S0305-4179(09)00139-9

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.019

Burns
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 335-342 , May 2010

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