Epicardial adipose tissue volume and adipocytokine imbalance are strongly linked to human coronary atherosclerosis

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1077-1084

  Shimabukuro, Michio ^a   Hirata, Yoichiro ^a,b   Tabata, Minoru ^d   Dagvasumberel, Munkhbaatar ^a,c   Sato, Hiromi ^a   Kurobe, Hirotsugu ^a   Fukuda, Daiju ^a   Soeki, Takeshi ^a   Kitagawa, Tetsuya ^a   Takanashi, Shuichiro ^d   Sata, Masataka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MONGOLIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

^d SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease; inflammation; obesity

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; ADIPONECTIN; ALTERNATIVE MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION ASSOCIATED CC CHEMOKINE 1; ARGINASE 1; CD68 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CRYOPYRIN; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; UMBILICUS;

ADIPOKINES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD11C; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 84876282636     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.112.300829     Document Type: Article

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