Endothelial and macrophage-specific deficiency of P38α MAPK does not affect the pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis in ApoE-/- mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kardakaris, Rozina ^a,b   Gareus, Ralph ^a,c   Xanthoulea, Sofia ^a,d   Pasparakis, Manolis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TaconicArtemis GmbH   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLESTEROL; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL CULTURE; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

MUS;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CHEMOKINES; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 79958262747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021055     Document Type: Article

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