Role of proinflammatory alleles in longevity and atherosclerosis: Results of studies performed on -1562C/T MMP-9 in centenarians and myocardial infarction patients from Sicily

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1089, Issue , 2006, Pages 496-501

  Nuzzo, Domenico ^a   Vasto, Sonya ^a   Balistreri, Carmela R ^a   Di Carlo, Daniele ^a   Listí, Florinda ^a   Caimi, Gregorio ^a   Caruso, Marco ^a   Hoffmann, Enrico ^a   Incalcaterra, Egle ^a   Lio, Domenico ^a   Caruso, Calogero ^a   Candore, Giuseppina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Gruppo di Studio sull'Immunosenescenza   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infarction; Inflammation; Longevity; Metalloproteases; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; GELATINASE B; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ITALY; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SICILY;

EID: 33847768694     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1386.048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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