动脉粥样硬化是个十分常见的疾病,对于人类健康危害极大,是造成死亡的重要病因之一。关于动脉粥样硬化的基本病变——粥样斑块的形成机理,从临床观察至动物实验做了大量研究,也提出过多种多样的设想。学说之多,分歧之大,正说明动脉粥样硬化的复杂性,也反映出疾病的本质还没有得到足够深入的认识。近十多年来,应用电子显微镜,同位素标记术,免疫学方法以及动脉壁细胞体外培养等技术研究粥样斑块,取得了许多新资料,认识得 Atherosclerosis is a very common disease, which has great harm to human health and is one of the important causes of death. On the basic pathology of atherosclerosis - atherosclerotic plaque formation mechanism, from clinical observation to animal experiments done a lot of research, but also put forward a variety of assumptions. There are so many doctrinal and divergent opinions that illustrate the complexity of atherosclerosis and the fact that the nature of the disease has not been sufficiently understood. In the recent ten years, the application of electron microscopy, isotope labeling, immunological methods and in vitro culture of artery wall cells and other techniques to study atherosclerotic plaque, and made a lot of new information, understanding