Unpredictable chronic mild stress promotes atherosclerosis in high cholesterol-fed rabbits

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 604-611

  Lu, Xiao Ting ^a,b   Liu, Yun Fang ^c   Zhang, Lei ^a   Yang, Rui Xue ^b   Liu, Xiao Qiong ^b   Yan, Fang Fang ^b   Wang, Ying Bin ^b   Bai, Wen Wu ^b   Zhao, Yu Xia ^b   Jiang, Fan ^a  

^a Qilu Hospital of Shandong University   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aorta; atherosclerosis; endothelial dysfunction; unpredictable chronic mild stress; vascular inflammation

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NITRATE; NITRITE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DIET, ATHEROGENIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84863727578     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31825d0b71     Document Type: Article

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