Circulating Immunoglobulins Are Not Associated with Intraplaque Mast Cell Number and Other Vulnerable Plaque Characteristics in Patients with Carotid Artery Stenosis

• Sanne Willems ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanne Willems, Daniël van der Velden

  Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Daniël van der Velden ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanne Willems, Daniël van der Velden

  Affiliation Division of Biopharmaceutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Paul H. A. Quax,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Einthoven Laboratory of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Gert Jan de Borst,

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Jean-Paul P. M. de Vries,

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Sint Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

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• Frans L. Moll,

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Johan Kuiper,

  Affiliation Division of Biopharmaceutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• René E. M. Toes,

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Saskia C. A. de Jager,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Dominique P. V. de Kleijn,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Surgery, National University Hospital Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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• Imo E. Hoefer,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Gerard Pasterkamp,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Ilze Bot

  * E-mail: i.bot@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl

  Affiliations Division of Biopharmaceutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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