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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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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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