S100 Proteins in Monitoring Inflammation: The Importance of a Gold Standard and a Validated Methodology

In the May issue of The Journal of Immunology , Abe et al. reported that S100A8, S100A9, and S100A12 are among the genes most profoundly up-regulated during acute Kawasaki disease ([1][1]), supporting previously published data ([2][2], [3][3], [4][4]). The authors found profoundly differing serum