Carvastatin suppresses intimal thickening of rabbit carotid artery after balloon catheter injury probably through the inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-166

  Komukai, Masayuki ^a,b   Saitoh Wajima, Y ^b   Tashiro, J ^a   Shinomiya, M ^a,b   Saito, Y ^a   Morisaki, N ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Bioscience Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; HMG CoA reductase inhibitor; Restenosis

Indexed keywords

CARVASTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PRAVASTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH INHIBITION; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECURRENCE RISK; RESTENOSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CAROTID ARTERIES; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MEVALONIC ACID; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NAPHTHALENES; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PRAVASTATIN; PYRANS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, LDL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0033003112     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365519950185689     Document Type: Article

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