High plasma levels of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) characterize patients prone to ventricular fibrillation complicating myocardial infarction.

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Published in Clin Chem Lab Med on January 01, 2007

Authors

Elif Elmas1, Siegfried Lang, Carl Erik Dempfle, Thorsten Kälsch, Dieter Hannak, Tim Sueselbeck, Christian Wolpert, Martin Borggrefe, Martina Brueckmann

Author Affiliations

1: 1st Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. elif.elmas@med.ma.uni-heidelberg.de

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