The liver X receptor gene team: Potential new players in atherosclerosis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1243-1248

  Repa, Joyce J ^a   Mangelsdorf, David J ^b  

^a Touchtone Ctr for Diabetes Res   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIATHEROGENIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL 7ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERMEDIATE DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; LIVER X RECEPTOR; LIVER X RECEPTOR AGONIST; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR AGONIST; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FOAM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TARGET ORGAN; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MICE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR;

EID: 0036851863     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1102-1243     Document Type: Review

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