Biology of C-Reactive Protein and the Acute Phase Response

1 June 1982

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Hospital Practice

Vol. 17 (6) , 67-81
https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1982.11702332

Abstract

In the nearly half century since its discovery, interest in CRP has waxed and waned. That interest has now been intensified, both because of recognition that CRP is prototypical of a family of acute phase proteins, including serum amyloid, and because it can now be seen as one of a unique class of proteins that may represent a host defense system that parallels but is distinct from immunologic response.

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