Atherosclerosis
Volume 206, Issue 2 , Pages 351-352, October 2009

A response to the letter regarding the pleiotropic effects of fluvastatin on acute inflammatory response and the role of MMP-9 in plaque destabilization and intraplaque hemorrhage

  • Kae Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
  • ,
  • Takeshi Sasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
    • Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
  • ,
  • Xian Wu Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Research Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • Department of Cardiology, Yanbian University Hospital, 119 Juzijie, Yanji, Jilin Province, 133000, China
  • ,
  • Masafumi Kuzuya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 52 744 2364; fax: +81 52 744 2371.

Received 20 May 2009 published online 29 June 2009.

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PII: S0021-9150(09)00422-5

doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.05.019

Atherosclerosis
Volume 206, Issue 2 , Pages 351-352, October 2009