Levosimendan and plasma BNP levels: Do inflammatory cytokines regulate BNP in chronic decompensated heart failure? [2]

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 216-217

  McLachlan, Craig S ^a   Mossop, Peter ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CALCIUM SENSITIZER; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEVOSIMENDAN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; TROPONIN;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART PROTECTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATATION;

ALPROSTADIL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PYRIDAZINES; STROKE VOLUME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 32644438998     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2006.01.004     Document Type: Letter

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