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About 35 years ago, Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC, postulated a revolutionary hypothesis: time is muscle. He proposed that acute MI is a dynamic process and that its clinical outcome is determined ...

The complement system is a crucial mediator of the innate immune response, interacting with other innate mechanisms and with factors of acquired immunity. It contributes significantly to cell ...

LITTLE is known about the mechanism by which blood clots or fibrin monolayers usually lyse. The enzyme plasmin (fibrinolysin) has been assumed to play a key part in this mechanism and for this ...

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1 British Heart Foundation/University of Edinburgh Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2 Clinical Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh, ...