Figure 1.
Stages of atherosclerotic plaque development (according to the Virmani classification [6]). cVSMC: vascular smooth muscle cell, contractile phenotype; sVSMC: vascular smooth muscle cell, synthetic phenotype; ECM: extracellular matrix.
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