Altered plasma levels of cytokines in patients with ischemic heart disease

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 143-147

  Tashiro, Hideki ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^b   Yamamoto, Kunihiko ^a   Momohara, Michiko ^a   Tada, Hideo ^a   Takeshita, Akira ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Ischemic heart disease; Macrophage colony stimulating factor; Transforming growth factor ; Unstable angina

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030926821     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-199703000-00004     Document Type: Article

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