Eosinophils: A new player in coronary atherosclerotic disease

Hypertension Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-271

  Niccoli, Giampaolo ^a   Cosentino, Nicola ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; EOSINOPHIL PEROXIDASE; EOSINOPHIL PROTEIN X; EOTAXIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKOTRIENE C4; LEUKOTRIENE D4; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIN; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BASOPHIL; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL ACTIVATION; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAST CELL; MONOCYTE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUTROPHIL; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THORAX PAIN;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84857982503     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.221     Document Type: Note

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