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Every raster image used in this page's academic graphics, with its source, license and attribution. PDB coordinates are public domain per wwPDB policy (https://www.wwpdb.org/about/pdb-data-use); ribbons were rendered by the Hypothesis Critic team from those coordinates.

Images kept

File	What it shows	Source paper / authors	DOI / PMCID	Figure	License	Attribution line
`athero-lesions-histo.jpg`	Histopathology of progressive atherosclerotic lesions (pathological intimal thickening, fibrous-cap atheroma, fibrocalcific plaque), H&E	Yang W-J, Fisher M, Zheng L, Niu C-B, Paganini-Hill A, Zhao H-L, Xu Y, Wong K-S, Ng H-K, Chen X-Y. “Histological characteristics of intracranial atherosclerosis in a Chinese population: a postmortem study.” Front Neurol. 2017;8:488	doi:10.3389/fneur.2017.00488 · PMCID: PMC5622314	Fig 1 (composite)	CC BY 4.0	Yang W-J et al., Front Neurol 2017, CC BY 4.0
`foam-cell-cholesterolosis.jpg`	Histopathology of gallbladder cholesterolosis with annotated foam cell, H&E	Original micrograph by K C Geetika and Talwar OP (source paper not specified in file metadata); annotated by Mikael Häggström	—	—	CC BY 4.0	Geetika KC & Talwar OP (annot. Häggström), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
`atherosclerosis-2113ab.jpg`	Illustration (not a micrograph): normal artery vs atherosclerotic plaque narrowing	OpenStax College, Anatomy & Physiology (Connexions)	—	—	CC BY 3.0	OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (illustration)

PDB structures rendered (public domain coordinates)

PDB	Structure	Rendered for
1N7D	LDL receptor extracellular domain (closed, endosomal-pH conformation)	Molecular panels (full + detail inset)

Rejected candidates (not used)

Candidate	Why rejected
Macrophage-polarization schematic found on Commons (CC BY 4.0)	Diagram rather than real data; the H&E panels already show the relevant cell types