Plasma Gas6 levels and coronary artery disease

Delphine Borgel; Eric Durand; Sylvain Clauser; Christilla Bachelot-Loza; Séverine Peyrard; Véronique Remones; Martine Aiach; Antoine Lafont

doi:10.1160/TH08-05-0325

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 2009; 101(01): 215-216
DOI: 10.1160/TH08-05-0325

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Plasma Gas6 levels and coronary artery disease

Delphine Borgel

¹AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Laboratoire d’Hématologie A, France, Paris, France

³Univ. Paris-Sud, Faculty of Pharmacy, Châtenay-Malabry, France

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Eric Durand

²AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Pôle Cardiovasculaire, France, Paris, France

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Sylvain Clauser

¹AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Laboratoire d’Hématologie A, France, Paris, France

⁴Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 765, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Paris, France

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Christilla Bachelot-Loza

⁴Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 765, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Paris, France

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Séverine Peyrard

⁵AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

⁶URC, Paris, France

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Véronique Remones

¹AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Laboratoire d’Hématologie A, France, Paris, France

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Martine Aiach

¹AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Laboratoire d’Hématologie A, France, Paris, France

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Antoine Lafont

²AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Pôle Cardiovasculaire, France, Paris, France

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