We determined whether over-expression of one of the three genes involved in reverse cholesterol transport, apolipoprotein (apo) AI, lecithin-cholesterol acyl transferase (LCAT) and cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), or of their combinations influenced the development of diet-induced atherosclerosis. Eight genotypic groups of mice were studied (AI, LCAT, CETP, LCAT/AI, CETP/AI, LCAT/CETP...

کچ ی هد پ ی ش مز ی هن ه و فد : ساسا د مردنس رد نامرد ي سفنت سرتس ي ظنت نادازون داح ي سکا لدابت م ي و نژ د ي سکا ي د هدوب نبرک تسا طسوت هک کبس اـه ي ناـمرد ي فلتخم ي هلمجزا لکتورپ INSURE ماجنا م ي دوش ا اذل . ي هعلاطم ن فدهاب اقم ي هس عضو ي ت اه ي ندب ي عضو رب رمد و زاب قاط ي سفنت ت ي هـب لاتـبم سراـن نادازون ردنس د م ي سفنت سرتس ي لکتورپ اب نامرد تحت داح INSURE ماجنا درگ ...

The lipid binding properties of apolipoprotein (apo) AIMilano, a molecular variant of human apolipoprotein AI, characterized by the Arg173----Cys substitution, was investigated by the use of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine liposomes. Both the variant AIMilano and normal AI are incorporated to the same extent in stable complexes isolated by gel filtration, showing similar dimensions and stoichiom...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to determine the effect of fish oil (FO) supplements on high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), apolipoprotein-AI (Apo-AI), malondialdehyde (MDA), arylesterase (Aryl), and paraoxonase-1 (PON1) activity in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS A total of 90 RA patients were randomly allocated into two groups that were treated with one...

In a study published recently in Arthritis Research & Therapy, Woo and colleagues investigated the effects of pravastatin in combination with an apolipoprotein-AI (Apo-AI) mimetic peptide in a mouse model of lupus-accelerated atherosclerosis. Combination treatment resulted in a significant decrease in systemic inflammation but increased aortic root lesion size. However, this treatment changed t...

Several studies have suggested that genetic variations of the apolipoprotein (apo) AI-CIII-AIV cluster gene are associated with hyperlipidemia or atherosclerosis. These investigations were carried out mainly with Caucasian groups; there have been few associated studies involving non-Caucasian groups. This study was conducted to elucidate the association between five restriction fragment length ...

A 48-yr-old Caucasian female of central European origin (subject IM) with low plasma cholesterol and normal plasma triglyceride (TG) had extremely low apo A-I (6 mg/dl), A-II (5 mg/dl), and HDL cholesterol (2 mg/dl) levels. She had most of the clinical symptoms typically associated with Tangier disease, including early corneal opacities, yellow-streaked tonsils, hepatomegaly, and variable degre...

Elevated HDL-cholesterol (C) and apo AI are associated with decreased coronary artery disease (CAD) risk. We determined distributions of two MspI polymorphisms of the apo AI gene, associated in other studies with increased HDL-C, among 644 patients aged # 65 years in relation to circulating lipids and CAD severity assessed angiographically. The rare allele distributions at both sites were in Ha...