Low smooth muscle cell densities characterize sites with isolated interstitial lipid in coronary artery intima

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 755-760

  Tracy, Richard E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; PARAFFIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CORONARY ARTERY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CELL COUNT; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TISSUE FIXATION; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 34248202622     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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