## Abstract The influence of current medical technology adoption decisions on the use of future potential interventions is often overlooked. Some health interventions, once exercised, restrict future potential interventions for both related and unrelated medical conditions. For example, treatment o
A scavenger that really scavenges is better in the liver than in the artery
โ Scribed by A D Cooper
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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โฆ Synopsis
A SCAVENGER THAT REALLY SCAVENGES IS tury ago. However, the precise steps that lead to the deposition of LDL cholesterol in the artery have not BETTER IN THE LIVER THAN IN THE ARTERY been fully elucidated. Brown and Goldstein's Nobel Wolle S, Via DP, Chan L, Comicelli JA, Bisgaier CL. Prize-winning work 1 established that a specific pro-Hepatic overexpression of bovine scavenger receptor tein, the LDL receptor, is responsible for the removal type I in transgenic mice prevents diet-induced hyperof LDL from the blood, and most of this activity is in betalipoproteinemia. J Clin Invest 1995;96:260-272. the liver. The hallmark of early atherosclerosis is the formation of foam cells, lipid-laden macrophages, in ABSTRACT the artery wall. How then does cholesterol, presumably from LDL, get into macrophages in the artery wall? A Hepatic scavenger receptors (SR) may play a protecfirst thought would be via LDL receptors, which are
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