Expression of tissue transglutaminase and elafin in human coronary artery: Implication for plaque instability

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-39

  Sumi, Yoshihiko ^a   Inoue, Nobutaka ^a   Azumi, Hiroshi ^a   Seno, Tadashi ^a   Okuda, Masanori ^a   Hirata, Kenichi ^a   Kawashima, Seinosuke ^a   Hayashi, Yoshitake ^a   Itoh, Hiroshi ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Elafin; Immunohistochemistry; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

ELAFIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINASE INHIBITORY PROTEINS, SECRETORY; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGLUTAMINASES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0036145207     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(01)00542-1     Document Type: Article

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