Triiodothyronine stimulates prostacyclin production by rat aortic smooth muscle cells in culture.

abstract：:Mevinolin (MK-803) is a potent inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase. After a placebo run-in period, mevinolin 5,15 or 50 mg, or placebo was given twice daily for 7-11 days under double -blind conditions ot 4 groups of 6 normocholesterolemic male volunteers. After 7 days, mean serum cholesterol fell 14%, 25% and 24% on 5, 15...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Tobert JA,Hitzenberger G,Kukovetz WR,Holmes IB,Jones KH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis in smooth muscle cells from normal and atherosclerotic rabbit aortas was studied. Cultures of cells from the third passage were incubated with [3H]proline and the synthesis rates of collagen and total protein measured from the radioactivities incorporated into protein-bound hydroxyproline and proline...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Pietilä K,Nikkari T

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is considered a chronic inflammatory disease of the arterial wall. Recently, compelling evidence has arisen for the role of monocytes and neutrophils and a particular protein complex that resides within these cells - the NLRP3 inflammasome - in atherosclerosis-associated inflammation. It is now also kn...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Martínez GJ,Celermajer DS,Patel S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density lipoproteins (HDL) have several antiatherogenic actions, including the ability to sequester cellular cholesterol, to protect low-density lipoproteins from oxidation and to inhibit platelet aggregation. An early event in atherogenesis is the adhesion and recruitment of blood monocytes, a process mediated b...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Stannard AK,Khan S,Graham A,Owen JS,Allen SP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygotes (TT genotype) for the C677T mutation in the gene of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (C677T/MTHFR mutation) constitute about 12% of the Caucasian population. They have mild hyperhomocysteinemia which is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease. If the mutation is associated with premature d...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Brattström L,Zhang Y,Hurtig M,Refsum H,Ostensson S,Fransson L,Jonés K,Landgren F,Brudin L,Ueland PM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The TNF-superfamily member sTWEAK and its scavenger receptor sCD163 are potentially involved in pathophysiological processes of atherosclerosis. In patients with peripheral arterial disease, previous research has shown that sTWEAK and the sCD163/sTWEAK ratio were independently associated with long t...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Mrak D,Zierfuss B,Höbaus C,Herz CT,Pesau G,Schernthaner GH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of atorvastatin (Lipitor) were evaluated in 40 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Following a 6 week drug-free baseline period 20 male and 20 female patients were treated with atorvastatin 40 mg once daily (QD) for the initial 6 weeks increasing to 80 mg QD during the following 6 weeks. Ator...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Hoogerbrugge N,Jansen H

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LDL and HDL became more fluid when health, free-living, premenopausal women were fed reduced fat diets with higher proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Lipoproteins were isolated from plasma of 31 female subjects fed one of two sets of diets from typical U.S.A. foods with P/S ratios of 0.3 or 1.0. All subjects ...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Berlin E,Judd JT,Nair PP,Jones DY,Taylor PR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1200 patients with angina were cardiac catheterized establishing that 63% had 70-100% stenosis, 12% had 10-69% stenosis of one or more of their coronary arteries and 25% had microvascular angina listed as 0% stenosis. Prior to catheterization 10 ml of blood was drawn and the plasma subjected to analysis for...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Kummerow FA,Olinescu RM,Fleischer L,Handler B,Shinkareva SV

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid is a negatively charged sugar associated with the protein and lipid portions of lipoproteins. Sialic acid has been hypothesised to play an anti-atherogenic role in lipoprotein metabolism through the electrostatic inhibition of lipoprotein interactions with chondroitin-6-sulphate-rich arterial proteoglycans...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Millar JS,Anber V,Shepherd J,Packard CJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 42-year-old male with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) who had received long-term low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-apheresis before death occurred, presumably from an arrhythmia. He had been treated with double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) for 4 years and selective LDL adsorbent plasmaphere...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Koga N,Iwata Y

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is emerging that the contribution of atherosclerosis to the development of abdominal aortic aneurysm may differ from that of other manifestations of arterial disease. B-mode ultrasound may be helpful in understanding the characteristics and factors that contribute to the development of different manifestation...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Simons PC,Algra A,Bots ML,Banga JD,Grobbee DE,van der Graaf Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In type 2 diabetics, the progression of atherosclerosis is more rapid than the general population and 80% of these patients will die of an atherosclerotic event. Since in these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), the presence of even borderline-high-risk LDL-C signals...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Baliarsingh S,Beg ZH,Ahmad J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the use of lipid lowering medications and control of dyslipidemia among US adults in 1999-2006. METHODS:Data were extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2006. RESULTS:The mean low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) level significantly decreased from 3.25+/-...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Li M,Ong KL,Tse HF,Cheung BM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Besides carotid or cardiac embolism, stroke can occur via microangiopathy (small arterial disease [SAD]) and macroangiopathy (intracranial atherosclerotic stroke [ICAS]) of the intracranial vasculature. There have been efforts to identify risk factors specific to microangiopathy and macroangiopathy, including vasc...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Bang OY,Chung JW,Ryoo S,Moon GJ,Kim GM,Chung CS,Lee KH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Del allele of the apolipoprotein B (apoB) signal peptide (SP) insertion/deletion (Ins/Del) polymorphism has been shown to be associated with elevated plasma levels of apoB, cholesterol and low density lipoprotein. It was the aim of the present study to analyse the relation of this gene variation to the risk of cor...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Gardemann A,Ohly D,Fink M,Katz N,Tillmanns H,Hehrlein FW,Haberbosch W

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol lowering in both primary and secondary prevention has been clearly demonstrated to lower coronary morbidity and, in secondary prevention, to lower coronary mortality as well. Putative dangers of cholesterol lowering remain unproven. Population studies linking low cholesterol to noncoronary mortalities do n...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： LaRosa JC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objective of this study was to determine the variability in cholesterol carrying capacity of low density lipoproteins (LDLs) and other apolipoprotein B (apo B)-containing lipoproteins in normolipidemic men. One hundred and fifty-nine normolipidemic men, ages 21 to 73 years, were enrolled. In addition to de...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Abate N,Vega GL,Grundy SM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of the health effects of low-dose ionizing radiation has always been a focus of debate and investigation within the scientific community. During the last decade, epidemiological studies provided evidence that an excess risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) can be associated with moderate and low dose r...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Borghini A,Gianicolo EA,Picano E,Andreassi MG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sulforaphane, a naturally occurring organosulfur compound in broccoli, has chemopreventive properties in cancer. However, the effects of sulforaphane in vascular diseases have not been examined. We therefore aimed to investigate the effects of sulforaphane on vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation a...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Kwon JS,Joung H,Kim YS,Shim YS,Ahn Y,Jeong MH,Kee HJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Depressed mood and exhaustion (DEEX) have gained attention as a risk predictor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Studies to estimate its ranking in prediction models are sparse. METHODS:The study included 3428 men aged 45-74 years who participated in one of three population-based MONICA/KORA Augsbu...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Ladwig KH,Baumert J,Marten-Mittag B,Lukaschek K,Johar H,Fang X,Ronel J,Meisinger C,Peters A,KORA Investigators.

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette transporter G1 (ABCG1) plays an important role in reverse cholesterol transport by exporting cholesterol to high density lipoproteins (HDL). Two major ABCG1 isoforms exist in humans, which differ by the presence or absence of twelve amino acids between the ATP cassette and the transmembrane do...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Burns V,Sharpe LJ,Gelissen IC,Brown AJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apoB) release from activated washed human platelets was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using monospecific rabbit antibodies to human low density lipoprotein (LDL). Activation of platelets with thrombin, Ca2+-ionophore A23187 or stable analogue of prostaglandin endoperoxides U46...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Preobrazhensky SN,Podrez EA,Tsibulsky VP,Fuki IV,Mazurov AV,Repin VS,Smirnov VN

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has recently been shown to be present in human atherosclerotic lesions and to promote the formation of deleterious peroxynitrite. Allicin and ajoene are discussed as active compounds with regard to the beneficial effects of garlic in atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Dirsch VM,Kiemer AK,Wagner H,Vollmar AM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skinfold thickness, % body fat content, body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, plasma glucose, serum cholesterol and triglycerides have been measured in 132 middle-aged men (mean age 39.8 +/- 9.9, range 20-59 yr) and in 114 middle-aged women (mean age 39.1 +/- 9.3, range 20-59 yr). Anthropometric data...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Contaldo F,Di Biase G,Panico S,Trevisan M,Farinaro E,Mancini M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decline of cognitive function with age may be due, in part, to atherosclerotic changes. The aim of the present study was to determine the relative contribution of cardiovascular disease (CVD) to cognitive functioning in middle-aged and elderly men. METHODS:In a cross-sectional study, cognitive tests were ad...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Muller M,Grobbee DE,Aleman A,Bots M,van der Schouw YT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is indicated that total/HDL cholesterol and LDL/HDL cholesterol ratios have more predictive power for cardiovascular disease compared to classic lipid parameters. However, there have been few reports about the usefulness of these indices for the assessment of early stage atherosclerosis in Japanese type 2 ...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Katakami N,Kaneto H,Osonoi T,Saitou M,Takahara M,Sakamoto F,Yamamoto K,Yasuda T,Matsuoka TA,Matsuhisa M,Yamasaki Y,Shimomura I

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies suggested that the progression of carotid atherosclerosis and plaques might be an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) and stroke, prior researches of different dosage of statins therapy on the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in patients had small sample sizes and diff...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Kang S,Wu Y,Li X

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Dietary long-chain (≥20 carbons) n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) reduce atherosclerosis and enhance macrophage autophagy activation. How macrophage autophagy impacts atherosclerotic progression, particularly when comparing dietary n-3 PUFA supplementation vs. saturated fat feeding, is unknow...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Wang Z,Sequeira RC,Zabalawi M,Madenspacher J,Boudyguina E,Ou T,Nelson JM,Nie Y,Zhao Q,Fessler MB,Zhu X

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors have been shown to be effective in primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Their mechanism of action is attributed to their cholesterol lowering activity but recent results seem to indicate additional effects related to the modulation of other processes that regulate th...

journal_title：Atherosclerosis

authors： Alfon J,Guasch JF,Berrozpe M,Badimon L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00