PMID: 15230151Jul 3, 2004Paper

Chronic bacterial infection as a risk factor for atherogenesis. The role of heat shock protein

Przegla̧d lekarski
Maciej Rabczyński, Rajmund Adamiec

Abstract

There is an increasing number of evidence of correlation between bacterial infection and atherosclerosis. Heat shock proteins as a possible factor connecting an inflammation reaction inducted by infection and development of the early atherosclerotic lesions is postulated.

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