Increased Levels of Inflammatory Cytokines and Endothelin-1 in Alveolar Macrophages from Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

• Liv I. Bjoner Sikkeland ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liv I. Bjoner Sikkeland, Christen P. Dahl

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Christen P. Dahl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liv I. Bjoner Sikkeland, Christen P. Dahl

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Thor Ueland,

  Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Endocrinology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

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• Arne K. Andreassen,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

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• Einar Gude,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

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• Thor Edvardsen,

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Torbjørn Holm,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

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• Arne Yndestad,

  Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Lars Gullestad,

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Johny Kongerud,

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Pål Aukrust,

  Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Erik Øie

  * E-mail: erik.oie@medisin.uio.no

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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