A HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor improved regression of atherosclerosis in the rabbit aorta without affecting serum lipid levels: Possible relevance of up-regulation of endothelial NO synthase mRNA

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 414-419

  Kano, Hatsuyo ^a   Hayashi, Toshio ^a   Sumi, Daigo ^a   Esaki, Teiji ^a   Asai, Yukako ^a   Thakur, Navin Kumar ^a   Jayachandran, Muthuvel ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase mRNA; Hypercholesterolemia; Nitric oxide; Regression

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; FLUINDOSTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033532524     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.0799     Document Type: Article

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