Enhanced Rho-kinase activity in patients with vasospastic angina after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2892-2894

  Nihei, Taro ^a   Takahashi, Jun ^a   Kikuchi, Yoku ^a   Takagi, Yusuke ^a   Hao, Kiyotaka ^a   Tsuburaya, Ryuji ^a   Shiroto, Takashi ^a   Ito, Yoshitaka ^a   Matsumoto, Yasuharu ^a   Nakayama, Masaharu ^a   Ito, Kenta ^a   Yasuda, Satoshi ^b   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angina; Stress; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; LIPID; RHO KINASE;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUTROPHIL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; VASOSPASTIC ANGINA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PHOSPHORYLATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84870495974     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-1238     Document Type: Article

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