The core of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis is a disease state of the arterial wall. In order to understand the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, it is thus necessary to know about the function and...The core of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis is a disease state of the arterial wall. In order to understand the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, it is thus necessary to know about the function and normal morphology of non-pathological arteries.