PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 9   —  8:00 AM   —  Room 12


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Section H1 - CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Gayle Winters and Jagdish Butany



8:00 Oral Bisphosphonates Induce Inflammation and Rupture of Atherosclerotic Plaques in Apo E Knockout Mice (236)
M Shimshi, E Abe, EA Fisher, M Zaidi, JT Fallon - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
8:15 Patterns of Immunohistochemical Staining with Caveolins-1 and -3 in Infarcted Human Cardiac Myocytes (225)
SW Fine, SM Factor, MP Lisanti, M Li - Montefiore Med Ctr; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
8:30 Vitronectin is Localized with Intermediate Filaments in Reversibly Damaged Cardiomyocytes at Sites of Acute Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction (238)
H Walinski, Y Wang, BM McManus, TJ Podor - UBC/McDonald Research Laboratories/iCAPTUR4E Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
8:45 Protein Kinase B/Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3b-Induced Activation of Versican Promoter by Tcf-4 Transcription Factor in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (233)
M Rahmani, JT Read, H Luo, PS Rennie, BM McManus - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
9:00 Expression of CD44 and Its Isoform CD44-v6 in Smooth Muscle Cells in the Postnatal Remodelling Process of Ductus Arteriosus (226)
P Francalanci, O Danhiave, R Boldrini, M Orzalesi, F Callea - Bambino Gesj Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
9:15 Pathology in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices. A Study of 24 Ventricular Biopsies, 24 Explanted Hearts and 21 Autopsies (234)
AG Rose, SJ Park, S Ormaza - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION III