Near-Infrared Autofluorescence in Atherosclerosis Associates With Ceroid and Is Generated by Oxidized Lipid-Induced
Mazen S Albaghdadi1,2, Ryutaro Ikegami1,3, Mohamad B Kassab1
1Cardiovascular Research Center, Division of Cardiology (M.S.A., R.I., M.B.K., M.M.C., F.A.J.), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
|May 20, 2021
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