Chinese red yeast rice attenuates the development of angiotensin II-induced abdominal aortic aneurysm and atherosclerosis

Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 549-556

  Xie, Xiaojie ^a   Wang, Yifan ^a   Zhang, Songzhao ^a   Zhang, Guidi ^a   Xu, Yinchuan ^a   Bi, Honghao ^a   Daugherty, Alan ^b   Wang, Jian an ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Angiotensin II; Atherosclerosis; Chinese red yeast rice

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ROOT; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; MALE; MONASCUS PURPUREUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CHOLESTEROL; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLANT EXTRACTS; TUNICA INTIMA;

MONASCUS PURPUREUS; MUS;

EID: 84860886815     PISSN: 09552863     EISSN: 18734847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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