Release of activin and follistatin during cardiovascular procedures is largely due to heparin administration

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2411-2415

  Phillips, David J ^a,d   Jones, Kristian L ^a   McGaw, David J ^a   Groome, Nigel P ^b   Smolich, Joseph J ^a   Pärsson, Håkan ^c   De Kretser, David M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FOLLISTATIN; HEPARIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RESTENOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ACTIVINS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INHIBINS; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034457520     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.7.2411     Document Type: Article

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