Human pentraxin 3 (PTX3) as a novel biomarker for the diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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...

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Main Authors: Yuichi Tamura, Tomohiko Ono, Masataka Kuwana, Kenji Inoue, Makoto Takei, Tsunehisa Yamamoto, Takashi Kawakami, Jun Fujita, Masaharu Kataoka, Kensuke Kimura, Motoaki Sano, Hiroyuki Daida, Toru Satoh, Keiichi Fukuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3448700?pdf=render

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