Endothelial dysfunction and LOX-1: Forty years from muscle to endothelium

Circulation Research

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 819-820

  Masaki, Tomoh ^a  

^a Osaka Seikei University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelial dysfunction; Endothelin; Endothelium; LOX 1; Oxidized LDL

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR 1; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTININ; ANIMALS; ENDOTHELINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; RECEPTORS, LDL; RECEPTORS, OXIDIZED LDL; RESEARCH; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS E;

EID: 0038370066     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000071523.67730.5F     Document Type: Editorial

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