Role of macrophage and smooth muscle cell apoptosis in association with oxidized low-density lipoprotein in the atherosclerotic development

Modern Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 365-373

  Akishima, Yuri ^a,d   Akasaka, Yoshikiyo ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a   Lijun, Zhang ^a   Kiguchi, Hideko ^b   Ito, Kinji ^a   Itabe, Hiroyuki ^c   Ishii, Toshiharu ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Kanagawa ken Hospital   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Atherosclerosis; Oxidized low density lipoprotein (oxLDL); Single stranded DNA; Tunel

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTIMA; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR;

EID: 15444374842     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800249     Document Type: Article

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