Polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene in patients with thrombotic brain infarction

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-150

  Doi, Yasufumi ^a   Yoshinari, Mototaka ^a   Yoshizumi, Hideyuki ^a   Ibayashi, Setsuro ^a   Wakisaka, Masanori ^a   Fujishima, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Angiotensin converting enzyme; Cerebral thrombosis

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; ALLELES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0030758043     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(97)00080-4     Document Type: Article

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