The unstable plaque: A broken balance

European Heart Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1821-1823

  Crea, Filippo ^a   Andreotti, Felicita ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYNONENAL; CD163 ANTIGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLYCOPHORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; IRON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOGENESIS; ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, SCAVENGER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 68749120848     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp266     Document Type: Editorial

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