Aortic recruitment of blood lymphocytes is most pronounced in early stages of lesion formation in apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-56

  Moeller, Flemming ^a   Nielsen, Lars B ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Apo E deficient mice; Atherosclerotic lesions; Genetic tracing; In vivo; Lymphocyte accumulation

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; FEMALE; GENE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0038403933     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(03)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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