Relationship between serum thymosin β4 levels and coronary collateral development

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 401-404

  Lv, Shumin ^a   Cheng, Gang ^a   Xu, Yifei ^a   Wang, Yuxing ^a   Xu, Geng ^a  

^a THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; angiography; collateral circulation; coronary artery disease; thymosin 4

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; THYMOSIN BETA4;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THYMOSIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 80051781037     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e3283487d68     Document Type: Article

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