Routine laboratory data were obtained on each visit, including an evaluation of acute phase reactants.

Transferrins, are iron binding proteins and acute phase reactants of animal serum.

Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis.

It is an acute phase reactant and its concentration increases (10-100 fold) in a disorder where there is tissue damage.

It was proposed recently that group II PLA2 might represent an acute phase reactant.

As a positive acute phase reactant, AAT is increased in acute inflammation.

The increased rate of liver protein synthesis may therefore be explained, in part, by an increased synthesis of the acute phase reactants.

Detection of vWD is complicated by vWF being an acute phase reactant with levels rising in infection, pregnancy and stress.

As an acute phase reactant, the role of group II PLA2 in infections and inflammatory diseases might be related to the host's defence against invading micro-organisms and tissue destruction.

All positive acute phase reactants showed an associated decline from current to former to never smokers in fully adjusted models ( p 0.01); albumin, likewise showed a significant increase ( p -trend 0.01).

Patients with alcoholic liver disease exhibit many biochemical abnormalities and clinical complications that may be cytokine mediated such as fever, neutrophilia, hypergammaglobulinaemia, and increased production of acute phase reactants including CRP.

In anemia of chronic disease without iron deficiency, ferritin levels should be normal or high, reflecting the fact that iron is stored within cells, and ferritin is being produced as an acute phase reactant but the cells are not releasing their iron.