Human Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) as a Novel Biomarker for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

BACKGROUND: Although inflammation is an important feature of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the usefulness of local inflammatory markers as biomarkers for PAH is unknown. In this study, we tested whether plasma concentrations of human pentraxin 3 (PTX3), a local inflammatory marker, would be...

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Autores principales: Tamura, Yuichi, Ono, Tomohiko, Kuwana, Masataka, Inoue, Kenji, Takei, Makoto, Yamamoto, Tsunehisa, Kawakami, Takashi, Fujita, Jun, Kataoka, Masaharu, Kimura, Kensuke, Sano, Motoaki, Daida, Hiroyuki, Satoh, Toru, Fukuda, Keiichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045834

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045834

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