Sentence examples for lesion prone from inspiring English sources

However, these criteria are insufficient to explain almost 40% of the ruptures, suggesting that other unforeseen factors may play an important role in distinguishing a lesion prone to rupture from a stable one.

It is known that VCAM-1 is strongly induced by OxLDL in endothelial cells in vitro and at lesion prone-sites even before the appearance of visible lesions (Cybulsky & Gimbrone, 1991; Khan et al, 1995).

TERT-p mutations may identify the rare subset of spitzoid melanocytic lesions prone to disseminate.

Vulnerable plaques are defined to be any lesions prone to thrombose [2].

We previously showed that irradiation to the carotid arteries of ApoE−/− mice accelerated the development of macrophage-rich, inflammatory atherosclerotic lesions, prone to intra-plaque hemorrhage.

A plaque containing a thick fibrous cap is considered stable [ 27, 28], whereas unstable or vulnerable lesions prone to rupture are characterized by thinning of the fibrous cap and loss of VSMC content.

Because atherosclerotic plaques evolve over time from simple fatty streaks to advanced lesions prone to plaque rupture, a useful model of the disease process must be able to accommodate changes in molecular composition and interactions over time.

After exclusion of patients with missing digital PET data and lesions prone to partial volume effects, only one patient in whom TP53 analysis was performed was left for inclusion.

There is minimal intima in the mouse [70], while human lesion-prone sites contain considerable diffuse intimal thickening (composed of SMC, elastin and proteoglycans) prior to lipid accumulation, with the lipid depositing deep in the (ECM and SMC rich) intima [71],[71].

To this end, we first introduced the Tgfa mutated allele in the lesion-prone (FVB/N) background.

Sequence analysis revealed a strain-specific mutation in the 5′ UTR that decreases MITF-A protein synthesis in lesion-prone friend virus B NIH (FVB/N) mice.