Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha and vascular endothelial growth factor in the carotid atheroma are expressed more in symptomatic cases than in asymptomatic cases.

TOMOSHI OSAWA, MITSUHITO MASE, MOTOKI TANIKAWA, MASATAKA FUJITA, HIROYUKI KATANO, KIMINORI AOYAMA, TAKAYUKI OHNO, KEITA SAKURAI, SHIGERU SASAKI, AND KAZUO YAMADA Departments of Neurosurgery, Nagoya City University Medical School Departments of Neurophysiology, Nagoya City University Medical School Departments of Radiology, Nagoya City University Medical School (Accepted for publication January20,2010)