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Inflammation and Cardiac Diseases /

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Heart failure research is a most active area of research in academic, industrial and government-sponsored research and receives intense clinical attention. The recent recognition that inflammation is a risk factor and prognostic factor for heart disease has laid ground for preventive medicine and ev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feuerstein, Giora Z.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Libby, Peter, Mann, Douglas L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2003.
Series:PIR (Series)
Subjects:
Medicine.
Cardiology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From the contents: Pathological aspects and inflammation biomarkers in cardiac diseases
  • Inflammatory cells and their metalloproteinases in cardiac diseases
  • Inflammatory cytokines in cardiac diseases
  • Oxygen and nitrogen reactive radicals in cardiac inflammation and disease
  • The immune and complement system and cardiac diseases
  • Inflammatory signaling pathways in cardiac diseases
  • Inflammation and myocarditis
  • Nuclear factors in cardiac disease
  • Chemokines and cardiac diseases
  • Neurohormonal mediators and cardiac inflammation
  • Cyclooxygenases and cardiac diseases.