作者
Vahid Tavakolian Ferdousie, Maryam Mohammadi, Gholamhossein Hassanshahi, Hossein Khorramdelazad, Soudeh Khanamani Falahati-Pour, Mohsen Mirzaei, Mohammad Allah Tavakoli, Zahra Kamiab, Zahra Ahmadi, Reza Vazirinejad, Effat Shahrabadi, Ioanna Koniari, Nicholas G Kounis, Ali Esmaeili Nadimi
发表日期
2017/4/15
期刊
International Journal of Cardiology
卷号
233
页码范围
23-28
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Cardiovascular disease constitutes a major cause of death worldwide. Inflammation plays an important role in atherosclerosis formation, coronary artery disease progression, acute coronary thrombosis and occlusion. Chemokines are inflammatory mediators disposing several bio-functions, as leukocyte migration towards inflammatory signals and vascular injuries. The present study was designed to evaluate the potential correlation between serum levels of chemokines CXCL-10 and CXCL-12 and the degree of coronary artery occlusion.
Methods
Eighty eight patient candidates for coronary angiography with coronary artery disease symptoms and potentially high risk of coronary artery occlusion were recruited. Chemokine serum levels were measured with the ELISA method and patients underwent coronary angiography. All patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) were divided into four groups …
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