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Coronary artery disease and endothelial nitric oxide synthase and angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphisms.
Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis - 1 Oct 1999
Nakagami H, Ikeda U, Maeda Y, Yamamoto K, Hojo Y, Kario K, Kuroki S, Shimada K
Abstract excerpt
Nitric oxide (NO) inhibits platelet aggregation, proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells, and leukocyte adhesion to endothelial cells. Thus, genetic variation in or near NO synthase may be involved in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD). We investigated the association between CAD and endothelial constitutive NO synthase (ecNOS) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphisms by...
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