Results of a Phase 1/2a gene therapy clinical trial in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) revealed a significant decrease in levels of serum creatine kinase, an enzyme biomarker ...

We investigated the association between skin rash and plasma creatine kinase (CK) levels in oncology phase I trials. We analysed data from 295 patients treated at our institution within 25 phase I ...

Your doctor may recommend the creatine phosphokinase (CPK) test if there's a need to measure CPK enzyme levels in your blood. The cells in your body require this creatine kinase enzyme to generate ...

The research team found that, as in worms, creatine kinase levels are increased in the brains of mice lacking a similar S6K protein.

The available laboratory data showed elevated levels of creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase, as well as the presence of rheumatoid factor, anti-CCP antibodies, ANA, and anti–U1-RNP antibodies.

A 17-year-old boy was admitted to the pediatric ICU with chest pain, syncope, electrocardiographic abnormalities, and elevated creatine kinase and troponin T. He had been well until 5 days earlier, ...

The baby also had normal creatine kinase levels and age-appropriate motor function at 13 months, suggesting the overall cardiac and musculoskeletal benefit of in utero ERT.

Two days later the creatine kinase level was decreased to 7793 U/L, serum myoglobin was decreased to 5227 IU/L, SGOT was decreased to 324 IU/L, and serum creatinine was decreased to 0.8 mg/dL.

In the group with statin-related myopathy, 10 patients had myalgia, five had myositis, one had rhabdomyolysis and two had statin-related myopathy with no documented creatine kinase levels.

McMinnville High School football coach Jeff Kearin prepares to answer questions from the media after an alarmingly high number of its players were hospitalized for high creatine kinase levels.