Atherosclerosis - An autoimmune disease

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 559-566

  Wick, Georg ^a,b   Xu, Qingbo ^a  

^a Institute for Biomedical Aging Research   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Atherosclerosis; Autoimmunity; Heat shock protein 60; Immunology

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0033179727     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(99)00035-2     Document Type: Article

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