The atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability: Focus on the oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress in orchestrating the macrophage apoptosis in the formation of the necrotic core

Current Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1565-1572

  Cominacini, Luciano ^a   Garbin, Ulisse ^a   Mozzini, Chiara ^a   Stranieri, Chiara ^a   Pasini, Andrea ^a   Solani, Erika ^a   Tinelli, Irene Alessandra ^a   Pasini, Anna Fratta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Atherosclerosis; Efferocytosis; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Necrotic core; Oxidative stress; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 4; THIOL OXIDASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; EFFEROCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; FOAM CELL; HUMAN; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; NECROTIC CORE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; NECROSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84931274691     PISSN: 09298673     EISSN: 1875533X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929867322666150311150829     Document Type: Article

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