Region-specific patterns of vascular remodelling occur early in atherosclerosis and without loss of smooth muscle cell markers

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 617-623

  Handa, Shivalika ^a,d   Sadi, Al Muktafi ^b   Cybulsky, Myron I ^a,b,d   Stewart, Duncan J ^a,c,d   Husain, Mansoor ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Gene expression; Smooth muscle cells; Vascular remodelling

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; CHLORDANE; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SMOOTH MUSCLE MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANSGELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTEROL DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTIMA; LIPID STORAGE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC AORTA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; AORTA; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38349162852     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.06.032     Document Type: Article

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