Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A: Do specific markers of vascular or plaque activation exist, and do we really need them?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 913-914

  Biasucci, Luigi M ^a   Rizzello, Vitioria ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYSTATIN C; GLUCOSE; HOMOCYSTEINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A;

EID: 33646934054     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.069559     Document Type: Editorial

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