Cellular imaging of human atherosclerotic lesions by intravascular electric impedance spectroscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Streitner, Ines ^a   Goldhofer, Markus ^a   Cho, Sungbo ^b   Kinscherf, Ralf ^c   Thielecke, Hagen ^b   Borggrefe, Martin ^a   Süselbeck, Tim ^a   Streitner, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CD36 ANTIGEN; STROMELYSIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROELECTRODE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD36; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 3;

EID: 84859576698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035405     Document Type: Article

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