Endothelial glycocalyx thickness and platelet-vessel wall interactions during atherogenesis

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 939-946

  Reitsma, Sietze ^a   Egbrink, Mirjam G A Oude ^a   Heijnen, Viviane V Th ^a   Megens, Remco T A ^a,b   Engels, Wim ^a   Vink, Hans ^a   Slaaf, Dick W ^c   van Zandvoort, Marc A M J ^a,d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherogenesis; Carotid artery; Endothelial glycocalyx; Mice; Platelets

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIAL GLYCOCALYX; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLYCOCALYX; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CAROTID ARTERIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GLYCOCALYX; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PLATELET ADHESIVENESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80155184543     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH11-02-0133     Document Type: Article

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