International Symposium: State of Prevention and Therapy in Human Arteriosclerosis and in Animal Models: Unter der Schirmherrschaft der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Begrüßung.- Geschäftsführender Direktor des Institutes für Arterioskleroseforschung an der Universität Münster.- Grußadressen.- Präsident der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.- Rektor der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.- Dekan des Fachbereichs Klinische Medizin der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.- Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Münster.- Vorsitzender des Vorstandes der Gesellschaft für Arterioskleroseforschung e. V. Münster.- Introducing Presentation.- Introducing Presentation.- Evaluation of Animal Models for the Study of the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis.- Evaluation of Epidemiology Concerning Prevention and Therapy of Atherosclerosis.- The Origin in Atherosclerotic Lesions of Extracellular Lipid and Debris and their Elimination during Regression.- Quantitative Studies of Atherosclerotic Plaque Size in Human Subjects.- Reversibility and Prevention.- The Reversibility of the Human Atherosclerotic Plaque.- Effect of a Diet Enriched in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Hyperlipoproteinemia in Man.- Atherosclerosis, a Preventable Disease? Autopsy Evidence.- Epidemiological Research in Western Europe.- Platelets in Relation to Atherosclerosis.- Regression of Atherosclerosis.- Problems in Experimental Atherosclerosis.- Some Cellular and Metabolic Aspects of Regression of Atherosclerosis, and the Compensatory Effect of Senile Arterial Dilatation.- Prevention and Regression in Animal Models by Diet and Cholestyramine.- On the Effects of Cholestyramine on Regression of Arterial Lesions in Rhesus Monkeys and of Metformin in Preventing Arterial Lesions in Hypercholesterolemic Rabbits.- Stroke and Heart Attack Induced Experimentally by Thromboxane A2 in Rabbits and Effect of EG 626, a Thromboxane A2 Antagonist.-Prevention and Therapy of Induced Atherosclerosis in Rabbits and Monkeys Regardless of Serum Cholesterol Levels.- Regression of Advanced Atherosclerosis in Swine.- Follow up of Arterial Mural Transport in Model Experiments and the Possibilities of Influencing it.- Immunological Factors in Vascular Diseases.- Pathological Findings Following Immunization with Vascular Tissues.- Microtubules in Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells in Vivo and in Culture An Electron Microscope Study.- Arteriosclerosis of Rats Induced by Fat-Free Diet.- Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Culture after Experimental Diabetes.- Alteration of DNA Template Activity in Artery Wall Cells Induced by Risk Factors.- Drugs and Hormones.- Role of Vasoactive Agents and Hypertension in Accelerated Atherogenesis.- Biosynthesis and Degradation of Matrix Macromolecules of the Arterial Wall. Regulation by Drug Action.- Mortality in Longterm Survivors from Myocardial Infarction after D-Penicillamine Therapy.- Effect of Mesenchyme Suppressive Drugs on Sclerogenesis in Animal Models.- A Factor in Diabetic Serum Stimulating Proliferation of Arterial Medial Cell Culture.- Large Vessel Disease in Diabetics — A Specific Diabetic Angiopathy?.- Inhibitory Influence of Somatostatin (Growth-Hormone-Release-Inhibiting-Factor; SRIF) on Mesenchymal Cells of Rats.- Influence of Hormones on Arterial Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation.- In Vitro Effects of Estrogen on Cyclic Nucleotides in the Arterial Wall.- Effect of Prednisolone and D-Penicillamine on Toxin and LDL Induced Proliferative Activity of ASMC of the Minipig.- Lipid Problems.- Serum Triglycerides and High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Healthy Persons and in Coronary Patients without Increased Serum Cholesterol.- Intervention Results in High Risk Individuals of the CBHeart Project in The Netherlands.- Enzyme — Substrate — Product Interactions in the Metabolism and Accumulation of Lipids in the Arterial Wall.- Physicochemical Factors in the Distribution of Plasma Lipoprotein Subunits between the Plasma Lipoproteins and the Arterial Wall.- Some Aspects on the Mechanism of Plasma Triglyceride Hydrolysis.- Risk and Healing Factors.- Arteriography Changes after Partial Ileal Bypass.- Tobacco Smoke as a Risk Factor in the Etiology of Arteriosclerosis.- Stop Smoking Training in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease.- Rehabilitation after Myocardial Infarction.- Prevention of the Clinical Symptoms of Atherosclerosis by Sport.- Causes of Cardiovascular Mortality and Morbidity in a Longitudinal Epidemiological Study.- Secondary Prevention by Physical Exercise in Patients after Myocardial Infarction (A Controlled Study in Randomized Groups of Exercising and Non-Exercising Patients).- Coagulation and Arteriosclerosis.- Plasmatic Coagulation in the Pathogenesis of Arteriosclerosis.- Surface Charge Properties of Endothelium of the Aorta in Young and Old Animals.- Platelet Aggregation in Atherosclerosis and its Inhibition by Antiplatelet Drugs.- Concluding Remarks.- Animal Models.- Human Arteriosclerosis.