Comparative morphometric and immunohistological assessment of the development of restenosis after arterial injury and a cholesterol-rich diet in apolipoprotein E -/-mice and C57BL/6 control mice

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 391-400

  Weingärtner, Oliver ^a,d   Kasper, Michael ^b   Reynen, Klaus ^a   Bramke, Silvia ^b   Marquetant, Rainer ^a   Sedding, Daniel G ^c   Braun Dullaeus, Rüdiger ^a   Strasser, Ruth H ^a  

^a University Heart Center Dresden   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Mouse; Remodeling; Restenosis; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLESTEROL;

ANGIOPLASTY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; DISEASE COURSE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMORAL ARTERY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPIDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 28944440571     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200509000-00009     Document Type: Article

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