Plaque Erosion: New Insights from the Road Less Travelled

Circulation Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 8-10

  Bentzon, Jacob F ^a,b   Falk, Erling ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; Editorials; endothelial cells; thrombosis; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; EDITORIAL; EROSION; NEOINTIMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; ANIMAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS;

TLR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MICE; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

EID: 85021055433     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.311218     Document Type: Editorial

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