C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase protein and one of the first recognized acute phase proteins in history.The increase in serum or plasma concentration is caused by the release of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6, which almost invariably shows

Procalcitonin (PCT) is a prohormone consisting of 116 amino acids with a molecular weight of about 12.7 kD.PCT is expressed by neuroendocrine cells (including C cells of thyroid, lung, and pancreatic tissues), which are enzymatically cleaved into (immatur

Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute phase reaction protein with a relative molecular mass of about 12 kD.Under normal circumstances, the content of SAA in blood is very low, which rises rapidly within 4872 h in the acute phase of inflammation or infection,