PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  8:00 AM   —  Delaware Suite


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Section F1 - CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Frederick Schoen and Jagdish Butany



8:00 Chemical Composition of Ceroid Deposits in Atherosclerotic Plaque: In Situ Studies Using a Combination of Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy (233)
AS Haka, M Fitzmaurice, MS Feld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
8:15 Microarray Analysis Shows That Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptors 1 and 2 (VEGFR1 and 2) Are Differentially Expressed in Proliferative Coronary Lesions from Atherosclerotic and Transplant Vasculopathy Human Arteries (243)
ER Rodriguez, CI Dumur, CT Garrett, WM Baldwin
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
8:30 Temporal Gene Expression in Vein Bypass Grafts Using Microarray Analysis (234)
JA Kalish, DJ Willis, JJ Link, ER Deutsch, MA Contreras, FW LoGerfo, WC Quist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
8:45 Overexpression of Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNFa) and TNF a) Receptors in Human Viral Myocarditis: Clinico-Pathologic Correlations (227)
F Calabrese, E Carturan, C Agostini, A Angelini, M Valente, GM Boffa, A Frustaci, G Thiene
University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy
9:00 Onlay Lesions of Mitral Chordae Associated with Liver Disease. A Review of 13 Autopsy Patients (244)
AG Rose, A Norton
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
9:15 Evidence for Extracardiac Progenitors in Human Transplant Hearts (236)
MA Laflamme, D Myerson, JE Saffitz, CE Murry
University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I