Medically reviewed by Anisha Shah, MD "Vascular disease" is a term given to conditions that affect the blood vessels that ...

The terms atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis sound similar but are slightly different in meaning. Atherosclerosis is a type of arteriosclerosis. It refers to the build-up of plaque in blood vessels.

THE etiology of atherosclerosis presents one of the most challenging problems in modern medical research. Before the last few decades, interest in arteriosclerosis lay chiefly in the field of ...

pathophysiology and complications of atherosclerosis, and thrombotic mechanisms in blood vessels. The journal began in 1981 as Arteriosclerosis (ISSN 0276-5047), which was published bimonthly.

The aorta of a mouse model of atherosclerosis on a high-fat diet for 12 months (top) has significantly more plaques (bright red) than the aorta of the same type of mouse that also produces the ...

Tao et al. provided proof-of-principle evidence for the use of targeted siRNA nanoparticles (green color particles) to silence a plaque-destabilizing gene in these macrophages (red color cells).