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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Auteurs principaux: Manabu Kashiwagi, Linbo Liu, Kengyeh K Chu, Chen-Hsin Sun, Atsushi Tanaka, Joseph A Gardecki, Guillermo J Tearney
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Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/e0ee6eb29b4240b684e8c9c2030aa223
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