[Compared with the wild-type mice, although Ang II infusion caused an equally high systolic blood pressure, levels of human CRP were further elevated, and cardiac remodeling was markedly exacerbated in mice that express human CRP, resulting in a significant reduction in the left ventricular ejection fraction and fractional shortening and an increase in cardiac fibrosis (collagen I and III and alpha-smooth muscle actin) and inflammation (interleukin 1beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha).]. 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