Accumulation of immune cells and high expression of chemokines/chemokine receptors in the upstream shoulder of atherosclerotic carotid plaques

Experimental and Molecular Pathology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-255

  Yilmaz, Atilla ^a   Lipfert, Bettina ^a   Cicha, Iwona ^a   Schubert, Katja ^a   Klein, Michael ^b   Raithel, Dieter ^b   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Garlichs, Christoph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b South Clinic Nuremberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Blood flow; Infection inflammation; Leukocytes; Macrophages

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACTIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD83 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CHLORDANE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FASCIN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; STATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLEEDING; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOGENESIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD34; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DENDRITIC CELLS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; SMOKING; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34247586138     PISSN: 00144800     EISSN: 10960945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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