Carotid plaque age is a feature of plaque stability inversely related to levels of plasma insulin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hägg, Sara ^a,b   Salehpour, Mehran ^c   Noori, Peri ^a   Lundström, Jesper ^a,b   Possnert, Göran ^c   Takolander, Rabbe ^a   Konrad, Peter ^a   Rosfors, Stefan ^a   Ruusalepp, Arno ^d   Skogsberg, Josefin ^a,b   Tegnér, Jesper ^a   Björkegren, Johan ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Clinical Gene Networks AB   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; INSULIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHRONOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID ANALYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 79954539936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018248     Document Type: Article

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