Increased YKL-40 expression in patients with carotid atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 589-595

  Michelsen, Annika E ^a,b   Rathcke, Camilla N ^c   Skjelland, Mona ^a   Holm, Sverre ^a,b   Ranheim, Trine ^a,b   Krohg Sørensen, Kirsten ^a   Klingvall, Marit F ^a   Brosstad, Frank ^a,b   Øie, Erik ^a   Vestergaard, Henrik ^c   Aukrust, Pål ^a,b   Halvorsen, Bente ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Inflammation; Macrophage; Platelet releasate; Stroke

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; ISOPRENALINE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROTEIN YKL 40; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADIPOKINES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LECTINS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; STROKE; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 77955275761     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.02.035     Document Type: Article

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