Spontaneously occurring intramural coronary arteriosclerosis in regularly slaughtered veal calves and beef cattle: a screening study about prevalence and histopathological features

This is the first study that systematically describes spontaneously occurring intramural coronary arteriosclerosis in bovine species. Anitschkow cells, whose ultrastructural characteristics and localization suggest their potential origin from the smooth muscle cells of the tunica media of the arteriosclerotic coronary vessels, were also identified.