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Feasibility of the Assessment of Cholesterol Crystals in Human Macrophages Using Micro Optical Coherence Tomography

The presence of cholesterol crystals is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, but until recently, such crystals have been considered to be passive components of necrotic plaque cores. Recent studies have demonstrated that phagocytosis of cholesterol crystals by macrophages may actively precipitate plaque p...

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Autores principales: Kashiwagi, Manabu, Liu, Linbo, Chu, Kengyeh K., Sun, Chen-Hsin, Tanaka, Atsushi, Gardecki, Joseph A., Tearney, Guillermo J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25048105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102669