Systemic Inflammatory Parameters in Patients With Atherosclerosis of the Coronary and Peripheral Arteries

The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis: a perspective for the 1990s

1993 • 10,730 citations

Inflammation, Aspirin, and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Apparently Healthy Men

1997 • 5,442 citations

Determination of Glucose in Blood Using Glucose Oxidase with an Alternative Oxygen Acceptor

1969 • 4,582 citations

Gerinnungsphysiologische Schnellmethode zur Bestimmung des Fibrinogens

1957 • 3,280 citations

The Prognostic Value of C-Reactive Protein and Serum Amyloid A Protein in Severe Unstable Angina

1994 • 2,343 citations

High serum procalcitonin concentrations in patients with sepsis and infection

1993 • 2,020 citations

HAEMOSTATIC FUNCTION AND ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE: PRINCIPAL RESULTS OF THE NORTHWICK PARK HEART STUDY

1986 • 1,989 citations

Interleukin-6: An Overview

1990 • 1,910 citations

Hemostatic Factors and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction or Sudden Death in Patients with Angina Pectoris

1995 • 1,807 citations

Fibrinogen as a Risk Factor for Stroke and Myocardial Infarction

1984 • 1,686 citations

Acute Phase Proteins with Special Reference to C-Reactive Protein and Related Proteins (Pentaxins) and Serum Amyloid A Protein

1983 • 1,283 citations

Fibrinogen and risk of cardiovascular disease. The Framingham Study

1987 • 1,246 citations

Immune response-associated production of neopterin. Release from macrophages primarily under control of interferon-gamma.

1984 • 1,083 citations

TGF-β stimulation and inhibition of cell proliferation: New mechanistic insights

1990 • 992 citations

Plasma Concentration of C-Reactive Protein and Risk of Developing Peripheral Vascular Disease

1998 • 987 citations

Cholesterol and mortality. 30 years of follow-up from the Framingham study

1987 • 981 citations

Fibrinogen and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

1987 • 855 citations

TGF-β induces bimodal proliferation of connective tissue cells via complex control of an autocrine PDGF loop

1990 • 756 citations

Enzymatische Bestimmung des Gesamt-Cholesterins im Serum

1974 • 747 citations

The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis: Atherogenesis and Inflammation

1989 • 701 citations

Human atherosclerosis. II. Immunocytochemical analysis of the cellular composition of human atherosclerotic lesions.

1986 • 676 citations

Sur un dosage rapide du cholesterol lié aux α-et aux β-lipoprotéines du sérum

1960 • 634 citations

Elevation of C-reactive protein in “active” coronary artery disease

1990 • 592 citations

Cholesterol and Mortality

1987 • 579 citations

Fibrinogen, cigarette smoking, and risk of cardiovascular disease: Insights from the Framingham Study

1987 • 472 citations

Epidemiology and prevention: Association of Chlamydia pneumoniae and acute coronary heart disease events in non-insulin dependent diabetic and non-diabetic subjects in Finland

1996 • 459 citations

Is atherosclerosis an immunologically mediated disease?

1995 • 411 citations

The serum concentration of active transforming growth factor-β is severely depressed in advanced atherosclerosis

1995 • 386 citations

The Münster Heart Study (PROCAM). Results of follow-up at 8 years.

1998 • 358 citations

Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 protein and gene expression in human arterial atherosclerotic wall

1996 • 336 citations

Chlamydia Pneumoniae , Cytomegalovirus, and Herpes Simplex Virus in Atherosclerosis of the Carotid Artery

1997 • 317 citations

Isolation ofChlamydia pneumoniaefrom a Carotid Endarterectomy Specimen

1997 • 290 citations

A new method of scoring coronary angiograms to reflect extent of coronary atherosclerosis and improve correlation with major risk factors

1990 • 278 citations

Interleukin 6 gene transcripts are expressed in human atherosclerotic lesions

1994 • 265 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) is chemotactic for human monocytes and induces their expression of angiogenic activity

1988 • 233 citations

Demonstration of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the walls of abdominal aortic aneurysms

1997 • 203 citations

Association of Variables of Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Acute-phase with Atherosclerosis in Coronary and Peripheral Arteries and those Arteries Supplying the Brain

1995 • 201 citations

Cytomegalovirus DNA in arterial walls of patients with atherosclerosis

1994 • 189 citations

C-reactive protein immunohistochemical localization in normal and atherosclerotic human aortas.

1987 • 164 citations

Localization of T lymphocytes and macrophages expressing IL-1, IL-2 receptor, IL-6 and TNF in human aortic intima. Role of cell-mediated immunity in human atherogenesis

1993 • 155 citations

Interaction of oxidized low density lipoprotein with macrophages in atherosclerosis, and the antiatherogenicity of antioxidants.

1996 • 152 citations

Immunoglobulins and complement components in human aortic atherosclerotic intima

1985 • 145 citations

Human atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysms produce interleukin (IL)-6 and interferon-gamma but not IL-2 and IL-4: The possible role for IL-6 and interferon-gamma in vascular inflammation

1994 • 144 citations

Association Between Serum Amyloid A Proteins and Coronary Artery Disease

1997 • 139 citations

Elevated serum neopterin levels in atherosclerosis

1991 • 137 citations

MACROPHAGES AND ATHEROGENESIS

1987 • 134 citations

Increased concentrations of neopterin in carotid atherosclerosis

1994 • 133 citations

Immunological measurement of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta1) in blood; assay development and comparison.

1997 • 124 citations

Immunohistochemical localization of C5b-9, S-protein, C3d and apolipoprotein B in human arterial tissues with atherosclerosis

1987 • 116 citations

Plasma Lp(a) levels correlate with number, severity, and length-extension of coronary lesions in male patients undergoing coronary arteriography for clinically suspected coronary atherosclerosis.

1994 • 104 citations

Circulating transforming growth factor β1 and coronary artery disease

1997 • 101 citations

Detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae in atherosclerotic plaques in the walls of arteries of lower extremities from patients undergoing bypass operation for arterial obstruction

1997 • 99 citations

Active and acid-activatable TGF-β in human sera, platelets and plasma

1995 • 93 citations

Human atherosclerosis. IV. Immunocytochemical analysis of cell activation and proliferation in lesions of young adults.

1993 • 91 citations

Immunological measurement of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) in blood; assay development and comparison

1997 • 91 citations

Immunohistochemical localization of C‐reactive protein‐binding sites in human atherosclerotic aortic lesions by a modified streptavidin‐biotin‐staining method

1995 • 73 citations

Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis--an update.

1997 • 64 citations

Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural demonstration of the lymphocyte-macrophage interaction in human aortic intima.

1991 • 60 citations

Predictors of the presence and extent of peripheral arterial occlusive disease.

1996 • 58 citations

Constitutive and NF-κB—like proteins in the regulation of the serum amyloid a gene by interleukin 1

1991 • 57 citations

Value of urinary neopterin in the differential diagnosis of bacterial and viral infections

1990 • 54 citations

Interleukin-6 Causes Hypocholesterolemia in Middle-aged and Old Rhesus Monkeys

1995 • 49 citations

Hemostatic variables in the prediction of coronary risk: results of the 8 year follow-up of healthy men in the Münster Heart Study (PROCAM). Prospective Cardiovascular Münster Study.

1996 • 45 citations

Oxidized lipoproteins influence gene expression by causing oxidative stress and activating the transcription factor NF-κB

1993 • 40 citations

Proliferation of human aortic vascular smooth muscle cells in culture is modulated by active TGF

1995 • 38 citations

Transcription and translation are required for fibrinogen mRNA degradation in hepatocytes

1991 • 24 citations

Binding and endocytosis of murine high density lipoprotein from healthy (HDL) and inflamed donors (HDL_SAA) by murine macrophagesin vitro. A light and electronmicroscopic investigation

1997 • 23 citations

Inflammation and Coronary Heart Disease

2000 • 19 citations

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AS A PATHOGEN

1997 • 10 citations