Blood lipid profiles and peripheral blood mononuclear cell cholesterol metabolism gene expression in patients with and without methotrexate treatment

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Der Yuan ^a   Chih, Hui Min ^a   Lan, Joung Liang ^a   Chang, Hsin Yueh ^a   Chen, Wei Wen ^a   Chiang, En Pei I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

27 HYDROXYLASE; ABC TRANSPORTER A1; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; METHOTREXATE; OXYGENASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; CHOLESTANETRIOL 26 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOAM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; BLOOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP27A1; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY FATS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78651265647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-4     Document Type: Article

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