Leucocyte recruitment in rupture prone regions of lipid-rich plaques: A prominent role for neovascularization?

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 443-449

  De Boer, Onno J ^a   Van Der Wal, Allard C ^a   Teeling, Peter ^a   Becker, Anton E ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; Atherosclerosis; Inflammation; Plaque stability

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CELL INFILTRATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD40; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; E-SELECTIN; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LEUKOCYTES; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; LYMPHOKINES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0033019584     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(98)00255-7     Document Type: Article

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