Platelets enter atherosclerotic plaque via intraplaque microvascular leakage and intraplaque hemorrhage: A histopathological study in carotid plaques

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 355-359

  van Lammeren, Guus W ^a   Pasterkamp, Gerard ^a   de Vries, Jean Paul P M ^b   Bosch, Lena ^a   de Haan, Judith J ^a   de Kleijn, Dominique P V ^a   Moll, Frans L ^a   Vink, Aryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Intraplaque hemorrhage; Microvessels; Platelets

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GLYCOPROTEIN IB ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVESSEL LEAKAGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBUS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIB-IX COMPLEX; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 84861341161     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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