Evidence concerning resistance to atheroma by media-like islands in the intima of coronary arteries

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-56

  Tracy, Richard E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV HLTH SCI C   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Human; Intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 10044224602     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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