Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Atherosclerosis With Targeted Ultrasound Detection of Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 | Zendy

Beat A. Kaufmann | Zendy; John M. Sanders | Zendy; Christopher K. Davis | Zendy; Aris Xie | Zendy; Patrick Aldred | Zendy; Ian J. Sarembock | Zendy; Jonathan R. Lindner | Zendy

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Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Atherosclerosis With Targeted Ultrasound Detection of Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1

Author(s) -

Beat A. Kaufmann,

John M. Sanders,

Christopher K. Davis,

Aris Xie,

Patrick Aldred,

Ian J. Sarembock,

Jonathan R. Lindner

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.106.684738

Subject(s) - microbubbles , medicine , aorta , inflammation , molecular imaging , apolipoprotein b , ultrasound , cell adhesion molecule , vcam 1 , pulsatile flow , pathology , thoracic aorta , endothelial stem cell , icam 1 , immunology , radiology , in vivo , chemistry , biochemistry , in vitro , biology , cholesterol , microbiology and biotechnology

The ability to image vascular inflammatory responses may allow early diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that molecular imaging of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) expression with contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEU) could be used for this purpose.

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