Increased adhesiveness of white blood cells in patients with unstable angina: Additional evidence for an involvement of the immune-inflammatory system

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1017-1020

  Leibovitz, Eyal ^a   Hertz, Yizhak ^b,c   Liberman, Eliezer ^b,c   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^b,c   Berliner, Shlomo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Leukocyte adhesion aggregation; Leukocytes; Unstable angina pectoris

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0031438528     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960201208     Document Type: Article

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