Inhibited atherosclerotic plaque formation by local administration of magnetically labeled endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in a rabbit model

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-86

  Ma, Zhan Long ^a   Mai, Xiao Li ^a   Sun, Jun Hui ^a   Ju, Sheng Hong ^a   Yang, Xiaoming ^b   Ni, Yicheng ^c   Teng, Gao Jun ^a  

^a AFFILIATED ZHONGDA HOSPITAL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Endothelial progenitor cells; Endothelium; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

FERRIC FERROCYANIDE; IRON OXIDE; POLYLYSINE; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CELL LABELING; CHOLESTEROL DIET; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; ENDOTHELIUM STEM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MALE; RABBITS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 66949146243     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2008.07.048     Document Type: Article

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