Blood Biomarkers for the Presence of Ruptured Atherosclerotic Plaques Identified
A research team from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands , found biomarkers to detect the presence of ruptured atherosclerotic plaques. They observed that the blood of individuals with ruptured atherosclerotic plaques contained antibodies reactive against two peptides, E1 and E12. The presence of these antibodies was detected extremely early after the onset of symptoms of a heart attack, according to the investigators. They caution, though, that further studies on additional patients are needed before this work can be translated into the clinic. Be a part of the XTractor community. XTractor is the first of its kind - Literature alert service , that provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the Keywords of user preference. XTractor maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies and enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biological significant relationships and it also ...