Chlamydia pneumoniae infection acts as an endothelial stressor with the potential to initiate the earliest heat shock protein 60-dependent inflammatory stage of atherosclerosis

Cell Stress and Chaperones

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 259-268

  Kreutmayer, Simone ^a   Csordas, Adam ^a,c   Kern, Jan ^b   Maass, Viola ^b   Almanzar, Giovanni ^a   Offterdinger, Martin ^a   Öllinger, Robert ^a   Maass, Matthias ^b   Wick, Georg ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Autoimmunity; Chlamydia; Endothelial; Heat shock protein 60; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHAPERONIN 60;

ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRESS; CELL SURFACE; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UPREGULATION;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD COAGULATION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MEMBRANE; CHAPERONIN 60; CHEMOKINES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DOWN-REGULATION; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NADPH OXIDASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXINS; UP-REGULATION;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84877825541     PISSN: 13558145     EISSN: 14661268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0378-7     Document Type: Article

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