Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 1146-1155 , November 2008

Leptin receptor is elevated in carotid plaques from neurologically symptomatic patients and positively correlated with augmented macrophage density

Presented at the American Heart Association meeting, Orlando, Fla, Nov 4-7, 2007.

  • Jacob Schneiderman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular Surgery and the Gottesdiener Vascular Biology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jacob Schneiderman, MD, Department of Vascular Surgery and the Gottesdiener Vascular Biology Laboratory, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Ramat Gan, Israel
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  • Amos J. Simon, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Molecular and Hemato-Oncology Laboratory, Institute of Hematology and Cancer Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Marco R. Schroeter, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology and Pulmonary Medicine, Georg August University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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  • Moshe Y. Flugelman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Carmel Medical Center, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, IIT, Haifa, Israel
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  • Stavros Konstantinides, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology and Pulmonary Medicine, Georg August University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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  • Katrin Schaefer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology and Pulmonary Medicine, Georg August University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Received 21 March 2008 ,Accepted 23 June 2008.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(08)01093-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.06.054

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 1146-1155 , November 2008

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