studies thus far have shown that arterial endothelial desquamation produced by mechanical injury with a balloon catheter or chemical injury from chronic homocystinemia or hypercholesterolemia elicits a sequence of events that includes platelet adherence , aggregation , and release at the sites of exposed subendothelial connective tissue , followed by smooth muscle cell migration and proliferation in the intima of the injured segments of the artery wall .
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arterial endothelial
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intima