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. 2015 Mar 1:182:387-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.12.093. Epub 2014 Dec 27.

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonism with etanercept improves endothelial progenitor cell counts in patients with psoriasis: etanercept, vascular function and endothelial progenitor cells in psoriasis

Salim S Hayek  1 , Robert Neuman  1 , Nino Kavtaradze  1 , Salman Sher  1 , Dean Jones  2 , Qunna Li  1 , Liping Zhao  3 , Suephy C Chen  4 , Edmund Waller  5 , Arshed Quyyumi  6
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Tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonism with etanercept improves endothelial progenitor cell counts in patients with psoriasis: etanercept, vascular function and endothelial progenitor cells in psoriasis

Salim S Hayek et al. Int J Cardiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Arterial stiffness; Endothelial progenitor cells; Etanercept; Flow-mediated dilation; Psoriasis; TNF-alpha.

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Fig. 1.
Hematopoetic and endothelial progenitor cell counts in subjects with psoriasis and matched controls.
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