[Activation of leukocytes and in particular polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) has emerged as a critical confounder in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease: Myeloperoxidase (MPO), one of the principal proteins hosted in and secreted by activated PMN, has been mechanistically linked to endothelial and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in rodent models of sepsis and ischemic cardiomyopathy.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE