PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between C reactive protein levels and clinical and radiological parameters with delayed ischemic neurological deficits and outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. METHODS One hundred adult patients with aneurismal SAH were prospectively evaluated. Besides the baseline characteristics, daily C-reactive protein levels were prospectively measured un...

C reactive protein (CRP) concentrations are used routinely in the investigation and monitoring of neonatal sepsis. In this study, CRP responses were examined in the first week after birth. Among infants showing a clinically relevant CRP response, CRP concentrations > 60 mg/l were more likely with increasing gestational age.

The effects of varying amounts of cAMP receptor protein (CRP) in the presence and absence of cAMP on the melting and differential melting curves of a 301-bp fragment containing the lac control region in 5 mM Na+ have been investigated. The native 301-bp fragment consists of three cooperatively melting thermalites. At 5 mM Na+, thermalite I (155 bp) has a Tm of 66.4 degrees C and the melting tra...

INTRODUCTION There is growing evidence that inflammation plays a pivotal role in the etiology and progression of atherosclerosis. High C-reactive protein (CRP) levels have been associated with high mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Furthermore, in animal models CRP has been found to significantly increase infarct size. So there is growing evidence that CRP is not onl...

Studies were initiated to localize the C-reactive protein (CRP) binding site on the coUagen-like region (CLR) of Clq. CRP bound preferentially to the A chain of reduced Clq, in contrast to aggregated immunoglobulin G (Agg-IgG), which reacted preferentially with the C chain. A group of Clq A chain peptides, including peptides identical to residues 81-97, 76-92, and 14-26, respectively, were synt...

Lymphocytes binding C-reactive protein (CRP) were studied in 31 patients with acute rheumatic fever and 30 controls who were children. Marked elevations in both proportions and absolute numbers of CRP-binding lymphocytes were recorded in rheumatic fever (P less than 0.001). No clear correlation was noted between plasma CRP as quantitated by radioimmunoassay and proportions or numbers of CRP-bin...

C-reactive protein (CRP) is able to bind phosphocholine in the presence of calcium ions. According to a previous functional property of CRP, we tried to develop an affordable and cheap high sensitive nephelometric CRP assay using soy oil. Serum samples were measured by Nephelometer BNII (Siemens), by mixing the serum with diluted soy oil emulsion (Intralipid ® 20%) and Tris-calcium buffer (PH 7...