Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease

Hypertension

Volumn 43, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages 297-305

  Hsueh, Willa A ^a   Bruemmer, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotensin; Atherosclerosis; Diabetes mellitus; Inflammation; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor

Indexed keywords

2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ANGIOTENSIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HORMONE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; LIGAND; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OSTEOPONTIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR AGONIST; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PIOGLITAZONE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA; ROSIGLITAZONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID METABOLISM; MACROPHAGE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESTENOSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; THIAZOLIDINEDIONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0842311509     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000113626.76571.5b     Document Type: Conference Paper

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