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InhaltsangabeINTRODUCTION PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS. Sarah George & Cressida Lyon PROINFLAMMATORY FACTORS CHEMOKINES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THERAPEUTIC TARGETS. Gemma White, Keith Channon & David Greaves ADHESION MOLECULES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Huan Wang & Yuqing Huo CYTOKINES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS. Alain Tedgui, Hafid Ait-Oufella and Ziad Mallat TOLLLIKE RECEPTORS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS Zhongqun Yan, Kristina Edfeldt & Anna Lundberg PPARBASED THERAPIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS Florence Gizard & Inés PinedaTorra PENTRAXINS IN VASCULAR PATHOLOGY: THE ROLE OF PTX3. Alberto Mantovani, Cecilia Garlanda, Barbara Bottazzi, Fabiola Molla & Roberto Latini PROTEASES METALLOPROTEINASES, THE ENDOTHELIUM AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Stephen White & Andrew Newby CATHEPSINS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS Lili Bai, Esther Lutgens & Sylvia Heeneman THE PLASMIN SYSTEM AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Chris Jackson & Kevin Carson MAST CELL PROTEASES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Petri Kovanen HYPERLIPIDEMIA MACROPHAGE FOAM CELL FORMATION: THE PATHWAYS TO CHOLESTEROL ENGORGEMENT. Kathryn Moore & Katey Rayner OXIDATIVE STRESS NADPH OXIDASE AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Jamie Jeremy, Saima Muzaffar, Carina Mill & Nilima Shukla UNCOUPLING OF ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS. Colin Cunnington & Keith Channon HEME OXYGENASE-1 AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Justin Mason & Faisal Ali CELL GROWTH AND PHENOTYPE PHENOTYPIC HETEROGENEITY OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS. IMPLICATIONS FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS Marie-Matteo Coen and Luce Bochaton-Piallat PLATELETS: THEIR ROLE IN ATHEROGENESIS AND THROMBOSIS IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. Matthew Harper, Lucy MacCarthy-Morrogh, Matthew Jones, Olga Konopatskaya & Alastair Poole MODULATORS OF MONOCYTE AND MACROPHAGE PHENOTYPES IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS Nick Jenkins & Jason Johnson

INTRODUCTION PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS. Sarah George & Cressida Lyon PROINFLAMMATORY FACTORS CHEMOKINES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THERAPEUTIC TARGETS. Gemma White, Keith Channon & David Greaves ADHESION MOLECULES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Huan Wang & Yuqing Huo CYTOKINES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS. Alain Tedgui, Hafid Ait-Oufella and Ziad Mallat TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS Zhong-qun Yan, Kristina Edfeldt & Anna Lundberg PPAR-BASED THERAPIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS Florence Gizard & Ines Pineda-Torra PENTRAXINS IN VASCULAR PATHOLOGY: THE ROLE OF PTX3. Alberto Mantovani, Cecilia Garlanda, Barbara Bottazzi, Fabiola Molla & Roberto Latini PROTEASES METALLOPROTEINASES, THE ENDOTHELIUM AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Stephen White & Andrew Newby CATHEPSINS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS Lili Bai, Esther Lutgens & Sylvia Heeneman THE PLASMIN SYSTEM AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Chris Jackson & Kevin Carson MAST CELL PROTEASES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Petri Kovanen HYPERLIPIDEMIA MACROPHAGE FOAM CELL FORMATION: THE PATHWAYS TO CHOLESTEROL ENGORGEMENT. Kathryn Moore & Katey Rayner OXIDATIVE STRESS NADPH OXIDASE AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Jamie Jeremy, Saima Muzaffar, Carina Mill & Nilima Shukla UNCOUPLING OF ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS. Colin Cunnington & Keith Channon HEME OXYGENASE-1 AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS Justin Mason & Faisal Ali CELL GROWTH AND PHENOTYPE PHENOTYPIC HETEROGENEITY OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS. IMPLICATIONS FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS Marie-Matteo Coen and Luce Bochaton-Piallat PLATELETS: THEIR ROLE IN ATHEROGENESIS AND THROMBOSIS IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. Matthew Harper, Lucy MacCarthy-Morrogh, Matthew Jones, Olga Konopatskaya & Alastair Poole MODULATORS OF MONOCYTE AND MACROPHAGE PHENOTYPES IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS Nick Jenkins & Jason Johnson