Behaviour of the polymorphonuclear leukocyte membrane fluidity and cytosolic Ca2+ content in vascular atherosclerotic disease with and without non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 429-436

  Caimi, Gregorio ^a,b   Canino, Baldassare ^a   Montana, Maria ^a   Ferrara, Filippo ^a   Ventimiglia, Giuseppe ^a   Meli, Francesco ^a   Rornano, Adele ^a   Catania, Anna ^a   Lo Presti, Rosalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; Polymorphonuclear cytosolic Ca2+; Polymorphonuclear membrane fluidity; Vascular atherosclerotic disease

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE MEMBRANE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; CYTOSOL; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CALCIUM; CYTOSOL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0031283252     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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