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Mediators of Inflammation
Volume 2011, Article ID 429501, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/429501
Research Article

Impact of Short-Term Systemic Hypoxia on Phagocytosis, Cytokine Production, and Transcription Factor Activation in Peripheral Blood Cells

Michael Fritzenwanger, Christian Jung, Bjoern Goebel, Alexander Lauten, and Hans R. Figulla

Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Cardiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Erlanger Allee 101, 07740 Jena, Germany

Received 29 January 2011; Accepted 14 April 2011

Academic Editor: Tânia Fröde

Copyright © 2011 Michael Fritzenwanger et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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