Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

1. Historical Reflections on the Inflammatory Aspects of Atherosclerosis
F. Javier Nieto

2. Morphology of Atherosclerotic Lesions
Maya Simionescu, Anca V. Sima

3. Clinical Manifestations of Atherosclerosis
Roland Klingenberg, Matthias Hasun, Roberto Corti, Thomas F. Lüscher

4. Intra-Aortic Hematopoietic Cells
Françoise Dieterlen-Lièvre, Thierry Jaffredo

5. The Vascular-Associated Lymphoid Tissue (VALT)
Georg Wick, Robert öllinger, Giovanni Almanzar

6. Vascular Endothelial Cells as Immunological Targets in Atheroscleroisis
Birgit Fogal, Jordan S. Pober

7. The Role of Adhesion Molecules and Intimal Dendritic Cells in the Initiation of Atherosclerosis
Jenny Jongstra-Bilen, Myron I. Cybulsky

8. Animal Models of Atherosclerosis
Cecilia Grundtman

9. A Darwinian-Evolutionary Concept for Atherogenesis: The Role of Immunity to HSP60
Georg Wick, Nicole Buhr, Gustav Fraedrich, Cecilia Grundtman

10. Mediators of Vascular Inflammation
Hafid Ait-Oufella, Ziad Mallat, Alain Tedgui

11. Pentraxins and Atherosclerosis
Elisa Barbati, Barbara Bottazzi, Alberico L. Catapano, Cecilia Garlanda, Roberto Latini, Alberto Mantovani, Giuseppe Danilo Norata, Sonia Valentino

12. Interleukin-33 and Atherosclerosis
Foo Y. Liew, Ashley M. Miller

13. Proteomics of Atherosclerosis
Mélanie Abonnenc, Manuel Mayr

14. Adipokines, Inflammation, and Atherosclerosis
Thomas M. Stulnig, Maximilian Zeyda

15. Natural Antibodies and Atherosclerosis
Dimitrios Tsiantoulas, Christoph J. Binder

16. NK/NKT Cells and Atherosclerosis
Marco Cavallari, Thérèse J. Resink, Gennaro Libero

17. Macrophages and Atherosclerosis
Andrew C. Newby

18. Host Pattern Recognition Receptors (Toll-Like Receptors, RIG-I-Like Receptors, NOD-Like Receptors) and Atherosclerosis
Marc Feldmann, Claudia Monaco

19. Humoral Antibodies
A. Graham Pockley

20. Adaptive T Cell Immunity
Charlotte Lahoute, Alain Tedgui, Ziad Mallat

21. Immunity to Low-Density Lipoprotein
Göran K. Hansson

22. Extracellular Matrix and Smooth Muscle Cells
S. J. George, J. L. Johnson

23. The Role of Infection in Atherosclerosis and in Plaque Stability
Stephen E. Epstein, Jianhui Zhu, Amir H. Najafi, Mary Susan Burnett

24. Inflammatory Biomarkers
Fabrizio Montecucco, Stephane Noble, François Mach

25. Atherosclerosis in Rheumatic Diseases
Marie Holmqvist, Lars Klareskog

26. Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Approaches
Zoltán Szekanecz, György Kerekes, Yehuda Shoenfeld

27. Vaccination Against Atherosclerosis
Cecilia Grundtman

28. Endocrinological Aspects of Atherosclerosis
Till Freudenberger, Jens W. Fischer

29. Imaging of Atherosclerosis
Marius C. Wick, Iris E. Chemelli-Steingruber, Christian Kremser

30. Future Directions of Atherosclerosis Research and Translation into Clinical Application
Qingbo Xu

31. Controversies and Open Questions
Georg Wick

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Immunology, Human Physiology, Endocrinology, Vaccine