Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 157-163, February 2010

Plasma ACE2 Activity is an Independent Prognostic Marker in Chagas' Disease and Equally Potent as BNP

  • Yong Wang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Biomedical Research, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK
    • Both authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Maria da Consolação V. Moreira, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • Both authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Silvia Heringer-Walther, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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  • Linda Ebermann, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Niels Wessel, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Wolf-Eberhard Siems, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Leibniz-Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany
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  • Thomas Walther, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Biomedical Research, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK
    • Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Prof. Thomas Walther, Centre for Biomedical Research, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. Tel: (+44) 1482-46 5513; Fax: (+44) 1482-46 5008.

Received 6 July 2009; received in revised form 15 September 2009; accepted 23 September 2009. published online 05 November 2009.

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 Supported by a DAAD and CAPES grant (415-br-probral/po-D/08/11632).

 Conflict of interests: None.

PII: S1071-9164(09)01089-6

doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.09.005

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 157-163, February 2010

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