Ultrastructural evidence for association of vascular dendritic cells with T-lymphocytes and with B-cells in human atherosclerosis

Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-221

  Bobryshev, Y V ^a,b   Watanabe, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherogenesis; B cells; Intima; T cells; Vascular dendritic cells

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL JUNCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORACIC AORTA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031113131     PISSN: 11229497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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