High cholesterol diet increases MMP9 and CD40 immunopositivity in early atherosclerotic plaque in rabbits

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 618-623

  Mathapati, Santosh ^a,b   Arumugam, Sarasa Bharati ^b   Verma, Rama Shanker ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b Frontier Lifeline Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Carotid artery; CD40; Hs CRP; MMP9

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD40 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CHOLESTEROL; GELATINASE B; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PROTEIN S 100; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RABBIT; THORACIC AORTA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD40; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DIET; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 77957166140     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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