The expression of vascular dendritic cells in human atherosclerotic carotid plaques

Human Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1378-1385

  Kawahara, Ichiro ^a   Kitagawa, Naoki ^a   Tsutsumi, Keisuke ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a   Koji, Takehiko ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Human carotid plaques; Ischemic stroke; T lymphocytes; Vascular dendritic cells

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34547838200     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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