Copyright © 1999 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Editorial
TNF-
in patients with chronic failure is not only a proinflammatory cytokine
a Silesian School of Medicine, Katowice, Poland
b K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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