Pentraxin 3 in Cardiovascular Disease

The long pentraxin PTX3 is a member of the pentraxin family produced locally by stromal and myeloid cells in response to proinflammatory signals and microbial moieties. The prototype of the pentraxin family is C reactive protein (CRP), a widely-used biomarker in human pathologies with an inflammator...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Ristagno, Francesca Fumagalli, Barbara Bottazzi, Alberto Mantovani, Davide Olivari, Deborah Novelli, Roberto Latini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00823/full