Heat Shock Proteins – a Mini Review
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This article provides an insight towards the various applications of heat shock proteins and also gives a brief introduction, discovery & functions of heat shock proteins. An overview of role of heat shock proteins in cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases & in cancer is discussed. Heat shock proteins, a family of stress inducible proteins are involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic vascular diseases, various infectious disease & also in tumor cells.
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