Circulating cytokines in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1085, Issue , 2006, Pages 324-326

  Dawson, Joe ^a   Cockerill, Gillian ^a   Choke, Edward ^a   Loftus, Ian ^a   Thompson, Matt M ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Cardiovascular mortality; Cytokines; Inflammation; Interleukin 6

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CYTOKINES; HUMANS;

EID: 34447643555     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1383.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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