Low vasa vasorum densities correlate with inflammation and subintimal thickening: Potential role in location-Determination of atherogenesis

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 362-368

  Gossl M ^a   Versari, D ^a   Lerman, L O ^a   Chade, A R ^a   Beighley, P E ^b   Erbel, R ^c   Ritman, E L ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherogenesis; Hypoxia; Micro CT; Microinflammation; Vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; CHOLESTEROL; HYDROETHIDINE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; OXYGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL COUNT; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DENSITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOXIA; MACROPHAGE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SWINE; VASA VASORUM; VASCULITIS;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN-6; NF-KAPPA B; SUPEROXIDES; SWINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUNICA INTIMA; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 70349411686     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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