Expression of proinflammatory cytokines in the failing human heart: Comparison of recent-onset and end-stage congestive heart failure

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 819-824

  Kubota, Toru ^a   Miyagishima, Masayuki ^a   Alvarez Jr, René J ^c   Kormos, Robert ^a   Rosenblum, Warren D ^a   Demetris, Anthony J ^a   Semigran, Marc J ^b   Dec, G William ^b   Holubkov, Richard ^a   McTiernan, Charles F ^a   Mann, Douglas L ^d   Feldman, Arthur M ^a   McNamara, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYTOKINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; INOTROPIC AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADULT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 18244414135     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00173-X     Document Type: Article

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