Presence of luminal neutrophil extracellular traps in atherosclerosis

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 597-598

  Megens, Remco T A ^a,b   Vijayan, Santosh ^b   Lievens, Dirk ^a   Döring, Yvonne ^a   van Zandvoort, Marc A M J ^b,c   Grommes, Jochen ^b   Weber, Christian ^a,b,c   Soehnlein, Oliver ^a,b,c  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LYSOZYME; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LETTER; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHROMATIN; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 84857732796     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH11-09-0650     Document Type: Letter

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