Human carotid plaque calcification and vulnerability: Relationship between degree of plaque calcification, fibrous cap inflammatory gene expression and symptomatology

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-200

  Wahlgren, Carl Magnus ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a   Shaalan, Wael ^a   Tang, Jun ^a   Bassiouny, Hisham S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification; Carotid plaque; Genes; Inflammation; Proteins

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OSTEOCALCIN;

AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHOULDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CYTOKINES; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-8; MACROPHAGES; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOCALCIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 58149214315     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000189204     Document Type: Article

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