Cholesterol is necessary both for the toxic effect of Aβ peptides on vascular smooth muscle cells and for Aβ binding to vascular smooth muscle cell membranes

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 471-479

  Subasinghe, Supundi ^a   Unabia, Sharon ^b   Barrow, Colin J ^a   Mok, Su San ^a   Aguilar, Marie Isabel ^b   Small, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

A ; Cholesterol; VSMC membranes

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; LOVASTATIN; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037312139     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.01552.x     Document Type: Article

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