Introduction: Autoimmunity as an Additional ‘Risk Factor’ for Atherosclerosis

Yehuda Shoenfeld, Dror Harats and Georg Wick

The Autoimmune Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis—An Evolutionary-Darwinian Concept

Georg Wick, Gunda Millonig and Qingbo Xu

Autoimmune Aspects of Atherosclerosis

Göran K. Hansson and Antonino Nicoletti

The Role of Macrophage Scavenger Receptors in Atherogenesis

Kiyoshi Takahashi, Motohiro Takeya, ... Katsunori Jinnouchi

CD36, the Macrophage Class B Scavenger Receptor: Regulation and Role in Atherosclerosis

Andrew C. Nicholson, Jihong Han, ... David P. Hajjar

Atherosclerosis, Matrix-Metalloproteinases (MMPs) and Ischemia/Hypoxia

N. Lahat and S. Shapiro

Ceramide pathway and Apoptosis in Autoimmunity and Atherosclerosis

T. Goldkorn, J. George, ... D. Harats

α-Defensins: Potential Link between Inflammation, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis

Abd Al-Roof Higazi, Douglas B. Cines and Khalil Bdeir

Lipids and Immunity

Steven M. Watkins, J. Bruce German, ... M. Eric Gershwin

Immune Activation Augments Infection-Dependent Atherogenesis

Giovanni Rivevuti and Christian J. Wiedermann

Host Response Differences to Infection May Affect Disease susceptibility in atherosclerotic patients

Jianhui Zhu, Yi Fu Zhou and Stephen E. Epstein

The Role of Chronic Infection in Atherosclerosis

Sandeep Gupta and Amarjit Sethi

Atherosclerosis: Evidence for the Role of Autoimmunity

Yehuda Shoenfeld, Jacob George, ... Dror Harats

Oxidized Autoantigens in Atherosclerosis

Eiji Matsuura, Kazuko Kobayashi, ... Takao Koike

Autoantibodies Against Oxidized Palmitoyl Arachidonoyl Phosphocholine in Atherosclerosis

Ruihua Wu

Autoantibodies to Endothelial Cells and Oxidized LDL in Human Atherosclerosis and Hypertension

Johan Frostegrd

Technical and Clinical Aspects about Autoantibody Assays for Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein

Outi Närvänen, Jukka Luoma and Seppo Ylä-Herttuala

Is There a Role for Paraoxonase in Atherosclerosis and in Antiphospholipid Syndrome?

M. Lambert, P.-Y. Hatron, ... P. Duriez

Anti-Prothrombin Antibodies in Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis

Yaniv Sherer, Miri Blank, ... Dror Harats

Detection of cellular Activity in Atherosclerosis by the Novel Cellscan System

Naomi Zurgil, Yair Levy, ... Yehuda Shoenfeld

Pathogenicity of Antiendothelial Cell Autoantibodies

Anne Bordron, Ronan Révélen, ... Pierre Youinou

Functional Heterogeneity of Pathogenic Anti-Endothelial Cell Antibodies

Pier Luigi Meroni, Elena Raschi, ... Yehuda Shoenfeld

The Aspect of Anti-Proteinase 3 Antibodies as AECA

Werner-J. Mayet and Andreas Schwarting

Anti-Endothelial-Cell Antibodies (AECA) in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Clinical Relevance

Norbert Sepp and Gerlinde Obermoser

Endothelial Cell Dysfunction in Atherosclerosis and Autoimmunity

Galina S. Marder and H. Michael Belmont

Modulation of Endothelial Cell Function by Normal Polyspecific Human Immunoglobulins (IVIg)

Jean-Paul Duong Van Huyen, Jacques Chevalier, ... Srinivas Kaveri

Cardiovascular Morbidity in the Hopkins Lupus Cohort

Michelle Petri

Atherosclerosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Clinical Relevance

Sònia Jiménez, Manuel Ramos-Casals, ... Miguel Ingelmo

SLE as a Model of Autoimmune Atherosclerosis

Outi Vaarala

Oxidant Stress in SLE Patients: Relationship to Atherosclerosis

Francesco Violi, Fausta Micheletta and Luigi Iuliano

Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Atherosclerosis

Olga Amengual, Tatsuya Atsumi, ... Graham R.V. Hughes

“Endotheliology” in Antiphospholipid Antibodies

Tatsuya Atsumi, Olga Amengual and Munther A Khamashta

Accelerated Atherosclerosis in the Aortic Arch and Cerebral Ischemia in a Patient with Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome

V Pengo, A Zocche, ... A Ruffatti

Rheumatoid Arthritis, Vasculitis and Arteriosclerosis

Paul A. Bacon and G.D. Kitas

Vasculitis of the Coronary Arteries and Atherosclerosis: Random Coincidence or Causative Relationship?

Viera Štvrtinová, Lubica Rouová, ... Jozef Rovenský

Dyslipoproteinemia and Premature Atherosclerosis in the Pediatric Rheumatic Disease

Diana Milojevic and Norman T. Ilowite

Atherosclerosis and Familial Mediterranean Fever

Pnina Langevitz, Avi Livneh, ... Mordechai Pras

Genetics of Arterial Thrombosis: Contribution to Atherosclerosis

Eduardo C. Lau

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