Article
Higher circulating levels of chemokines CXCL10, CCL20 and CCL22 in patients with ischemic heart disease.
Cytokine - 1 Jul 2016
Safa A, Rashidinejad H R, Khalili M, Dabiri S, Nemati M, Mohammadi M M, Jafarzadeh A
Abstract excerpt
Recruitment of leukocytes is one of the earliest events in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and chemokines play an important role in the migration of these cells into the inflammation sites. The aim of this study was to evaluate the CXCL10, CCL20 and CCL22 levels and the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs4508917, rs6749704 and rs4359426 in chemokine genes in patients with IHD to clarify any...
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