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Free radicals, antioxidants, and endothelial cell damage after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

DOI

41

Citations

0

References

1993

Year

Andrew D. Blann, Harvey Midgley, Gillian Burrows, Simon Maxwell, Sarah Utting, Michael J. Davies, Malcolm Waitet, Charles H. McCollum
Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

Our interpretation of these data is that an early peak in ODFR activity associated with PTCA causes an endothelial injury 1 h after inflation. This may be related to the reduced ability of GPx to scavenge ODFRs.