Expansive arterial remodeling is associated with increased neointimal macrophage foam cell content: The murine model of macrophage-rich carotid artery lesions

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2686-2691

  Ivan, Eugen ^a   Khatri, Jaikirshan J ^a   Johnson, Chad ^b   Magid, Richard ^b   Godin, Denis ^a   Nandi, Sudeshna ^a   Lessner, Susan ^a   Galis, Zorina S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Hypercholesterolemia; Leukocytes; Metalloproteinases; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; GELATIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOAM CELL; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTIMA; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOAM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0037024262     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000016825.17448.11     Document Type: Article

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