Biologic features (inflammation and neoangiogenesis) and atherosclerotic risk factors in carotid plaques and calcified aortic valve stenosis: Two different sites of the same disease?

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-502

  Mazzone, Annamaria ^a   Epistolato, Maria Carmela ^b   Gianetti, Jacopo ^a   Castagnini, Marta ^b   Sassi, Carlo ^b   Ceravolo, Roberto ^c   Bevilacqua, Stefano ^a   Glauber, Mattia ^a   Biagini, Andrea ^a   Tanganelli, Piero ^b  

^a G PASQUINUCCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecule; Aortic valve stenosis; Atherosclerotic risk factors; Carotid plaque; Inflammation; Neoangiogenesis

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ARTERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CAROTID ARTERIES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85047699093     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/W75NTE5QBC9DXE03     Document Type: Article

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