Circulating T-lymphocyte activation in patients with variant angina

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 161-168

  Terashima, Masahiro ^a   Akita, Hozuka ^a   Kanazawa, Kenji ^a   Shiga, Nobuyuki ^a   Matsuda, Yasuaki ^a   Hirata, Ken Ichi ^a   Kawashima, Seinosuke ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^a   Sobel, B E ^b   Maseri, A ^b   Yacoub, M ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Coronary vasospasm; Immune system; Lymphocyte activation; T lymphocytes; Variant angina

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; ANTIGENS, CD; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; JAPAN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0036305329     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200205000-00005     Document Type: Article

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