Leptin receptor is elevated in carotid plaques from neurologically symptomatic patients and positively correlated with augmented macrophage density

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1146-1155

  Schneiderman, Jacob ^a   Simon, Amos J ^a   Schroeter, Marco R ^b   Flugelman, Moshe Y ^c   Konstantinides, Stavros ^b   Schaefer, Katrin ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN 165; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEPTIN; MACROPHAGE-1 ANTIGEN; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 55249108435     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.06.054     Document Type: Article

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