… BNP and NT-proBNP are … impairment of myocardial microcirculation, reduction of coronary
flow reserve, hyperglycaemia, poor metabolic control, endothelial dysfunction and myocardial …

… proBNP (NT-proBNP) are widely used as diagnostic biomarkers for heart failure (HF) and
cardiac dysfunction … They are also used as postmortem biomarkers reflecting cardiac function …

… The recently demonstrated production of BNP by stimulated cardiac … main cardiac
production site, but as heart failure develops, there is a profound activation of ventricular NT-proBNP …

… the amino terminal portion of proBNP, proBNP(1–76) … proBNP (proBNP(1–76) or NTproBNP)
remain unclear, our recent detection of NT-proBNPlike material in extracts of human cardiac …

… ProBNP is split into NT-proBNP and BNP by the protease … cardiac (Nt-pro)BNP production
is cardiac wall stress. When chronic heart failure develops there is a relative shift in cardiac (Nt-…

… severe systolic LV-dysfunction by echocardiography in a … were first, to evaluate NT-proBNP
as a marker of LV-dysfunction in a large, … of NT-proBNP to other cardiac diseases. Therefore, …

… Cardiac dysfunction is a major limitation of anthracycline treatment in cancer patients. There
… N-terminal pro-brain-natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), troponin-T and creatine kinase MB …

… NT-proBNP levels, iron overload, and various echocardiographic indices of myocardial
dysfunction in … While there was a strong correlation between plasma NT-proBNP levels and iron …

… With increasing cardiac dysfunction, synthesis and release of cardiac natriuretic peptides …
observed in heart failure. Plasma concentrations of the cardiac natriuretic peptides and their pro…

… NT-proBNP appeared to be more sensitive than conventional echocardiographic …
Conclusions— NT-proBNP appeared to be the most sensitive index of myocardial dysfunction and …