Co-accumulation of dendritic cells and natural killer T cells within rupture-prone regions in human atherosclerotic plaques

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 781-785

  Bobryshev, Yuri V ^a,b   Lord, Reginald S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arteries; Atherosclerosis; Dendritic cells; NKT cells

Indexed keywords

CD1D ANTIGEN; LIPID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL CONTACT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL;

EID: 19444381652     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.4B6570.2005     Document Type: Article

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