| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells by Macrophages Is Impaired in Atherosclerosis | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology | 2005 | 407 |
| 2 | Elevated Levels of Oxidative DNA Damage and DNA Repair Enzymes in Human Atherosclerotic Plaques | Circulation | 2002 | 397 |
| 3 | Autophagy in Atherosclerosis | Circulation Research | 2009 | 333 |
| 4 | Apoptosis in atherosclerosis: beneficial or detrimental? | Cardiovascular Research | 2000 | 267 |
| 5 | Apoptotic versus autophagic cell death in heart failure | Cardiovascular Research | 2001 | 233 |
| 6 | Phagocytosis in atherosclerosis: Molecular mechanisms and implications for plaque progression and stability | Cardiovascular Research | 2007 | 228 |
| 7 | Phagocytosis and Macrophage Activation Associated With Hemorrhagic Microvessels in Human Atherosclerosis | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology | 2003 | 198 |
| 8 | Selective Clearance of Macrophages in Atherosclerotic Plaques by Autophagy | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2007 | 181 |
| 9 | Oxidative DNA Damage and Repair in Experimental Atherosclerosis Are Reversed by Dietary Lipid Lowering | Circulation Research | 2001 | 163 |
| 10 | Autophagy in disease: a double-edged sword with therapeutic potential | Clinical Science | 2009 | 161 |
| 11 | Autophagy in Atherosclerosis | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology | 2011 | 160 |
| 12 | Autophagy in the cardiovascular system | Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research | 2009 | 148 |
| 13 | Neuroglobin and cytoglobin overexpression protects human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells against oxidative stress-induced cell death | Neuroscience Letters | 2006 | 145 |
| 14 | Autophagy in cardiovascular disease | Trends in Molecular Medicine | 2007 | 144 |
| 15 | Platelet Phagocytosis and Processing of β-Amyloid Precursor Protein as a Mechanism of Macrophage Activation in Atherosclerosis | Circulation Research | 2002 | 131 |
| 16 | In Situ Detection of Starvation-induced Autophagy | Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry | 2006 | 125 |
| 17 | 7-Ketocholesterol Induces Protein Ubiquitination, Myelin Figure Formation, and Light Chain 3 Processing in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology | 2004 | 120 |
| 18 | Interaction between 5-hydroxytryptamine and other vasoconstrictor substances in the isolated femoral artery of the rabbit; effect of ketanserin (R 41 468) | European Journal of Pharmacology | 1982 | 118 |
| 19 | Apoptosis in atherosclerosis: focus on oxidized lipids and inflammation | Current Opinion in Lipidology | 2001 | 111 |
| 20 | Anoxia or oxygen and glucose deprivation in SH-SY5Y cells: A step closer to the unraveling of neuroglobin and cytoglobin functions | Gene | 2007 | 108 |
| 21 | Autophagy pathways activated in response to PDT contribute to cell resistance against ROS damage | Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine | 2011 | 106 |
| 22 | Role of autophagy in heart failure associated with aging | Heart Failure Reviews | 2010 | 103 |
| 23 | Necrotic cell death in atherosclerosis | Basic Research in Cardiology | 2011 | 101 |
| 24 | Effect of ghrelin and growth hormone-releasing peptide 6 on septic ileus in mice | Neurogastroenterology and Motility | 2004 | 96 |
| 25 | Autophagy in atherosclerosis | Current Atherosclerosis Reports | 2008 | 89 |
| 26 | Everolimus-Induced mTOR Inhibition Selectively Depletes Macrophages in Atherosclerotic Plaques by Autophagy | Autophagy | 2007 | 85 |
| 27 | Vasodilator efficacy of nitric oxide depends on mechanisms of intracellular calcium mobilization in mouse aortic smooth muscle cells | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2009 | 85 |
| 28 | Selectivity of Calcium Antagonism and Serotonin Antagonism with Respect to Venous and Arterial Tissues | Angiology | 1981 | 77 |
| 29 | Interactions between cell death induced by statins and 7‐ketocholesterol in rabbit aorta smooth muscle cells | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2008 | 77 |
| 30 | Pharmacological characterization of nucleotide P2Y receptors on endothelial cells of the mouse aorta | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2005 | 73 |
| 31 | Gene Expression Profiling of Apoptosis-Related Genes in Human Atherosclerosis | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology | 2002 | 69 |
| 32 | Clearance of dying autophagic cells of different origin by professional and non-professional phagocytes | Cell Death and Differentiation | 2007 | 66 |
| 33 | Pharmacological modulation of cell death in atherosclerosis: a promising approach towards plaque stabilization? | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2011 | 64 |
| 34 | Role of TRPV1 and TRPA1 in visceral hypersensitivity to colorectal distension during experimental colitis in rats | European Journal of Pharmacology | 2013 | 62 |
| 35 | Detection of Autophagy in Tissue by Standard Immunohistochemistry: Possibilities and Limitations | Autophagy | 2006 | 61 |
| 36 | Functional evidence that ATP or a related purine is an inhibitory NANC neurotransmitter in the mouse jejunum: study on the identity of P2X and P2Y purinoceptors involved | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2003 | 59 |
| 37 | Selective Depletion of Macrophages in Atherosclerotic Plaques via Macrophage-Specific Initiation of Cell Death | Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine | 2007 | 59 |
| 38 | Microarray analyses of the effects of NF-κB or PI3K pathway inhibitors on the LPS-induced gene expression profile in RAW264.7 cells | Cellular Signalling | 2009 | 54 |
| 39 | Amino Acid Deprivation Induces Both Apoptosis and Autophagy in Murine C2C12 Muscle Cells | Biotechnology Letters | 2005 | 53 |
| 40 | The Protein Synthesis Inhibitor Anisomycin Induces Macrophage Apoptosis in Rabbit Atherosclerotic Plaques through p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase | Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | 2009 | 52 |
| 41 | Endothelium-dependent relaxation evoked by ATP and UTP in the aorta of P2Y2 -deficient mice | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2006 | 51 |
| 42 | Melatonin reverses lipopolysaccharide‐induced gastro‐intestinal motility disturbances through the inhibition of oxidative stress | Journal of Pineal Research | 2008 | 51 |
| 43 | Arachidonic acid metabolism by cultured mesothelial cells | Lipids and Lipid Metabolism | 1982 | 49 |
| 44 | Nucleofection as an efficient nonviral transfection method for human monocytic cells | Biotechnology Letters | 2003 | 49 |
| 45 | Paraoxonase 1 gene transfer lowers vascular oxidative stress and improves vasomotor function in apolipoprotein E‐deficient mice with pre‐existing atherosclerosis | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2008 | 49 |
| 46 | Biphasic response of intimal prostacyclin production during the development of experimental atherosclerosis | Prostaglandins | 1986 | 48 |
| 47 | Dendritic Cells in Human Atherosclerosis: From Circulation to Atherosclerotic Plaques | Mediators of Inflammation | 2011 | 48 |
| 48 | Characterization of monohydroxylated lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic and linoleic acid in rabbit peritoneal tissue | Lipids and Lipid Metabolism | 1982 | 47 |
| 49 | Gene Expression Profiling of LPS-Stimulated Murine Macrophages and Role of the NF- B and PI3K/mTOR Signaling Pathways | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2007 | 45 |
| 50 | Effect of Nitric Oxide Donors on Neointima Formation and Vascular Reactivity in the Collared Carotid Artery of Rabbits | Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology | 1995 | 43 |
