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DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY AND ARTERIOSCLEROSIS IN MAN
Author(s) -
Loft Birte,
Olsen Finn
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section b microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-5563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1973.tb02276.x
Subject(s) - arteriosclerosis , delayed hypersensitivity , medicine , antigen , immunology , cardiology
By means of the leucocyte migration technique it is demonstrated that a hypersensitivity of the delayed type seems to be involved in at least some cases of arteriosclerosis in man. The hypersensitivity is directed against unknown antigenic substances in the femoral arterial wall.