Inflammation and atrial fibrillation: Is Chlamydia pneumoniae a candidate pathogen of atrial fibrillation?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 462-466

  Tang, Ri Bo ^a   Dong, Jian Zeng ^a   Liu, Xing Peng ^a   Ma, Chang Sheng ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOKINE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROLIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INFILTRATION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EPIDEMIC; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33745450879     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.03.017     Document Type: Article

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