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This paper reports on the incidence, location, and fate of macrophages and macrophage foam cells in the coronary artery and aortic intima and in the atherosclerotic lesions of young human subjects. The work represents a preliminary report on one topic of a study now in progress and concerned with the evolution and progression of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries and aortas of the population of New Orleans in the first 29 years of life.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Grant HL-22739.
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Stary HC (1982) Structure and ultrastructure of the coronary artery intima in children and young adults up to age 29. Proc 6th Int Symp Atherosclerosis, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York (this volume)
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Stary, H.C. (1983). Macrophages in Coronary Artery and Aortic Intima and in Atherosclerotic Lesions of Children and Young Adults up to Age 29. In: Schettler, F.G., Gotto, A.M., Middelhoff, G., Habenicht, A.J.R., Jurutka, K.R. (eds) Atherosclerosis VI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81817-2_87
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