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Cardioprotective Function of the Long Pentraxin PTX3 in Acute Myocardial Infarction

DOI

324

Citations

31

References

2008

Year

Monica Salio, Stefano Chimenti, Noeleen De Angelis, Fabiola Molla, Virginia Maina, Manuela Nebuloni, Fabio Pasqualini, Roberto Latini, Cecília Garlanda, Alberto Mantovani
Circulation

Abstract

Thus, PTX3 plays a nonredundant, regulatory, cardioprotective role in acute myocardial infarction in mice. Our results suggest that modulation of the complement cascade contributes to the cardioprotective function of PTX3.

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