Microvessel density but not neoangiogenesis is associated with 18F-FDG uptake in human atherosclerotic carotid plaques

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 384-392

  Pedersen, Sune Folke ^a   Graebe, Martin ^a   Hag, Anne Mette Fisker ^a   Hoejgaard, Liselotte ^a   Sillesen, Henrik ^a   Kjaer, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

18FDG PET; Atherosclerosis; Inflammation; Neoangiogenesis; Plaque vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BETA3 INTEGRIN; CATHEPSIN K; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD51 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GELATINASE B; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84861479724     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-011-0507-1     Document Type: Article

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