Increased levels of monocyte-related cytokines in patients with unstable angina

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 403-408

  Hojo, Yukihiro ^a   Ikeda, Uichi ^a   Takahashi, Masafumi ^a   Shimada, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Monocyte; Plaque rupture

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STENOSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036122383     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(01)00636-0     Document Type: Article

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