... coronary artery disease extracellular matrix inflammation mast cell pericellular matrix plaque erosion plaque rupture 1 Owing to exceptional unforeseen circumstances, this speaker was unable to give this presentation at the meeting. This paper is included in the interest of completeness...

... (basic fibroblast growth factor) from the tissue. bFGF was shown to be extracellular, and by immunohistochemistry, was present in the pericellular matrix of articular chondrocytes attached to the heparan sulphate proteoglycan perlecan. We propose a novel mechanotransduction model, whereby pericellular...