The carotid artery is one of the most important blood vessels that supply to brain. If thrombus occurs, it may cause cerebral ischemic stroke and endanger life. Carotid intima-media thickness stability plaque are essential indicators for predicting stroke, which can be measured through medical image segmentation. Therefore, automatic accurate segmentation measurement area volume great significa...

Activity of pentose phosphate pathway in the intima grown inside vascular prosthesis was studied in alloxan diabetic rabbits. Ratio of 14CO2 production from 1-14C-glucose and 6-14C-glucose was 7.8 in the nondiabetic group and 78.9 in the diabetic group. Statistically positive correlation was found between the ratio and the levels of blood glucose or plasma triglyceride. These results suggest th...

The composition and synthesis of lipid have been examined in normal intima and adjacent fatty streak lesions of human arterial segments which were incubated with [2-(14)C]acetate. The incorporation of acetate into lipid was greater in fatty streaks than in normal intima. There was increased acetate incorporation into all major lipid groups in the fatty streak, with the greatest relative increas...

The effect of diet-induced moderate hypercholesterolemia on endothelial healing has been investigated in the rabbit following a narrow superficial injury to aortic endothelium without damage to the media of the vessel. The healing process was compared with that observed in normocholesterolemic animals. The degree of platelet involvement was similar in both normo- and hypercholesterolemic animal...

In this paper we propose a new computationally efficient algorithm for automatic estimation of intima and media boundary of common carotid artery (CCA) based on ultrasound (USG) image analysis. The intima-media thickness (IMT), equal to distance between intima and media boundary, is typically used to predict cardiovascular events like myocardial infarction and stroke. At present, it is measured...

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the inner wall large- and medium-sized arteries. The histopathological lesion atherosclerosis atherosclerotic plaque. This study aimed to investigate vascular protective effects trihoney against development progression plaques. Thirty male New Zealand white (NZW) rabbits were grouped into six groups, comprising five per group as follows: norm...

We have evaluated the binding of sialylated and desialylated lipoproteins to collagen isolated from the proteoglycan and musculoelastic layers of intima and media of uninvolved human aorta and atherosclerotic lesions. Comparing various collagen preparations from the uninvolved intima-media, the binding of sialylated apoB-containing lipoproteins was best to collagen from the intimal PG-rich laye...