Apelin prevents aortic aneurysm formation by inhibiting macrophage inflammation

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Leeper, Nicholas J ^a   Tedesco, Maureen M ^a   Kojima, Yoko ^a   Schultz, Geoffrey M ^a   Kundu, Ramendra K ^a   Ashley, Euan A ^a   Tsao, Phillip S ^a   Dalman, Ronald L ^a   Quertermous, Thomas ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Chemokine; Inflammatory cytokine; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

APELIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTITIS; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 66149144223     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01341.2008     Document Type: Article

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