Calcification of coronary intima and media: Immunohistochemistry, backscatter imaging, and x-ray analysis in renal and nonrenal patients

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-134

  Gross, Marie Luise ^a   Meyer, Hans Peter ^b   Ziebart, Heike ^a   Rieger, Peter ^a   Wenzel, Uta ^a   Amann, Kerstin ^c   Berger, Irina ^a   Adamczak, Marcin ^e   Schirmacher, Peter ^a   Ritz, Eberhard ^d  

^a Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

^b Institute of Mineralogy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d Department of Internal Medicine   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; GELATINASE A; GLYCOPHORIN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTIMA; KIDNEY DISEASE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOXIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCINOSIS; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GLYCOPHORIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 34548529829     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01760506     Document Type: Article

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