Table 1.

Expression profiling of coronary arteries.

Target tissue	Experimental treatment	Number of genes affected
Intact coronary arteries [6]	Severe atherosclerosis versus non-atherosclerotic arterie	56
Diffuse survey of several arteries [7]	Documentation of gene expression in atherosclerotic tissu	75
Coronary plaques from patients with stable or unstable angina [8]	Ruptured plaque material	5
Atherosclerotic plaque from human coronary arteries [9]	Specimens retrieved by novel helix cutter	201
Human atherosclerotic plaque [10]	Specimens from ruptured plaque	Focus on perilipin; consistently upregulated