The role of transferrin in atherosclerosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 793-797

  Kibel, Aleksandar ^a   Belovari, Tatjana ^a   Drenjančević Perić, Ines ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL PROTECTION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IRON METABOLISM; IRON OVERLOAD; LIPID PEROXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 40049103491     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.07.039     Document Type: Article

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