“Acute Phase Response and Plasma Carotenoid Concentrations in Older Women: Findings from the Nun Study”: Background

[...]in the fall of 1980, we began enrolling patients in our longitudinal studies to define further the nature of this orchestrated response, which was subsequently termed the acute phase response, as described by Kushner. [...]we observed decreased concentrations of copper and ceruloplasmin in the...

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