Reviews the current knowledge and theory about atherosclerosis, in which plaque builds up on the inner artery wall. The 19 papers focus on the cellular and molecular biology of interactions among vascular and blood cells, their products, serum constituents, blood flow, and vessel wall constituents.

This volume contains the papers which were presented at the First Altschul Symposium, Atherosclerosis: Cellular and Molecular Interactions in the Artery Wall. The symposium was held in Saskatoon, at the University of Saskatchewan in May 1990 in memory of Dr. Rudolph Altschul, a pioneer in the field of vascular biology and the prevention of atherosclerosis. Dr. Altschul was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Saskatchewan from 1955 to 1963. The challenge for biomedical scientists is to unravel the multifactorial etiology of atherosclerosis. For the last hundred...