Publications by authors named "John Bevan Gavin"

Aim: Current theories fail to explain the localisation of atheromatous lesions or their variable incidence in different arteries of the same subject. The objective of this study was to compare by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) the endothelial surface and the subjacent elastic lamina of human coronary arteries at the location of areas showing infiltration by lipid and cells, with the same components of internal thoracic arteries of the same subjects.

Methods: The endothelial surface and the subjacent elastic lamina of localised atheromatous areas of 146 anterior descending coronary arteries were compared with the same structural components of the internal thoracic arteries of the same subjects, using SEM, transverse paraffin sections and freeze-fracture.

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