Serum tryptase levels and Kounis syndrome

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 407-408

  Kounis, N G ^a  

^a Patras Highest Institute of Education and Technology   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; GELATINASE; STROMELYSIN; TRYPSIN; TRYPTASE; UROKINASE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; KOUNIS SYNDROME; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MEDIATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TISSUE REGENERATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SYNDROME; TRYPTASES;

EID: 33845191940     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2005.11.088     Document Type: Article

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