Plasma Kynurenine Predicts Severity and Complications of Heart Failure and Associates with Established Biochemical and Clinical Markers of Disease

• Main Authors: Thomas Bernd Dschietzig (Author), Karl-Heinz Kellner (Author), Katrin Sasse (Author), Felix Boschann (Author), Robert Klüsener (Author), Jana Ruppert (Author), Franz Paul Armbruster (Author), Dragic Bankovic (Author), Andreas Meinitzer (Author), Veselin Mitrovic (Author), Christoph Melzer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Kynurenine, a metabolite of the L-tryptophan pathway, plays a pivotal role in neuro-inflammation, cancer immunology, and cardiovascular inflammation, and has been shown to predict cardiovascular events. Objectives: It was our objective to increase the body of data regarding the value of...