Impact of monocytic cells on recovery of uncultivable bacteria from atherosclerotic lesions

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 270, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-280

  Rafferty, B ^a   Jonsson D ^a   Kalachikov, S ^b   Demmer, R T ^c   Nowygrod, R ^b   Elkind, M S V ^b   Bush, H ^d   Kozarov, E ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Medical College ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Bacterial infection; Monocytes; Periodontal disease; Porphyromonas gingivalis

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MONOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTIS; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIA; CELL LINE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 80051553681     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02373.x     Document Type: Article

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