Atherothrombosis and plaque heterology: Different location or a unique disease?

Pathobiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 209-225

  Slevin, M ^a   Wang, Q ^a   Font, M Angels ^c   Luque, A ^c,d   Juan Babot, Oriol ^d   Gaffney, J ^a   Kumar, P ^a   Kumar, S ^b   Badimon, L ^d   Krupinski, J ^c,d  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^d Institut Català de Ciències Cardiovasculars   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Heart disease; Plaques; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TROPOMYOSIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASPASE 9; CD163 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LAMININ BETA1; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ARTERY DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 46749102930     PISSN: 10152008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000132382     Document Type: Review

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