Monoclonal Antibodies for Lipid Management

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Feinstein, Matthew J ^a   Lloyd Jones, Donald M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Coronary heart disease; LDL cholesterol; PCSK9; Statins

Indexed keywords

ALIROCUMAB; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; ATORVASTATIN; EVOLOCUMAB; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLACEBO; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN KEXIN TYPE 9; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN KEXIN TYPE 9 INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHOLESTEROL; PCSK9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 9;

CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MONOTHERAPY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORONARY DISEASE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLESTEROL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 9;

EID: 84971607432     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: 15346242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-016-0593-2     Document Type: Review

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