Urinary neopterin and total neopterin measurements allow monitoring of oxidative stress and inflammation levels of knee and hip arthroplasty patients

Gregory Baxter-Parker; Lloyd Roffe; Elena Moltchanova; Jay Jefferies; Siddarth Raajasekar; Gary Hooper; Steven P. Gieseg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0256072

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Urinary neopterin and total neopterin measurements allow monitoring of oxidative stress and inflammation levels of knee and hip arthroplasty patients

Gregory Baxter-Parker,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Lloyd Roffe,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Elena Moltchanova,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Jay Jefferies,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Siddarth Raajasekar,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Gary Hooper,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3424-5773

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Steven P. Gieseg

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Steven.Gieseg@canterbury.ac.nz

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Department of Radiology, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3862-1385

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Urinary neopterin and total neopterin measurements allow monitoring of oxidative stress and inflammation levels of knee and hip arthroplasty patients

Gregory Baxter-Parker,
Lloyd Roffe,
Elena Moltchanova,
Jay Jefferies,
Siddarth Raajasekar,
Gary Hooper,
Steven P. Gieseg

Published: August 17, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256072

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