[Current concepts of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in light of the development of N.N. Anichkov's theory (on the centenary of his birth)].

Aspects of the atherosclerosis pathogenesis connected with the role of lipoproteins and the arterial wall cells in the development of arterial atherosclerotic lesions are reviewed. The key problems of the atherosclerosis patho- and morphogenesis in the light of the development of N. N. Anichkov's ideas are discussed.