OBJECTIVE Animal and in vitro studies have suggested that hypercholesterolemia and increased oxidative stress predisposes to monocyte activation and enhanced accumulation of oxidized LDL cholesterol (oxLDL-C) through a CD36-dependent mechanism. The aim of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that elevated oxLDL-C induce proinflammatory monocytes and increased release of monocyte-derived...

familial hypercholesterolemia (fh) is an autosomal co-dominant disorder of lipid metabolism, caused by mutations in ldl receptor gene. the penetrance of fh is almost 100%, meaning that half of the offspring of affected parents born with disease. the patients are at risk of premature coronary heart disease (chd). there is no report about the molecular basis of fh in iran. identification of mutat...

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited common autosomal Mendelian disorder of lipoprotein metabolism with a population prevalence of 1 in 500. FH is characterized by severely elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), which result in surplus deposition of cholesterol in tissues. This condition leads to premature at hero sclerosis and early-onset of coronary hear...

Pradimicin S was isolated from the culture filtrate of Actinomadura spinosa AA0851. NMR and MS analyses proved that pradimicin S is the 3'-O-(3''-O-sulfo-beta-D-glucopyranosyl) analog of pradimicin A, a new member of the pradimicin family of antibiotics. Stereochemical assignment was made by correlating pradimicin S with pradimicin L.

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum) in southern Western Australia have undergone passive selection for over 19 generations to survive high water temperatures. Based on the conceptual model of 'oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance', we measured critical thermal maximum (CTmax), maximum heart rate (fH,max) and aerobic scope to test the hypothesis that these rainbow trout can mai...

The biology of the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor has been examined in detail, and a paradigm for LDL metabolism has evolved from comparative studies of cholesterol metabolism in a variety of cells cultured from normal individuals and subjects with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Cultured cells from patients with homozygous FH lack a functional LDL receptor and show diminished LDL c...

In this paper, an argon-like canonical system is studied. We introduce five hypothesis to deal with the total potential of the system. Then the balanced liquid-gas coexistence phenomenon is analyzed. Good equations of state and phase diagram are given. PACS Codes: 05.20.Jj; 05.70.-a; 05.70.Ce; 05.70.Fh.