Effect of unsaturation in fatty acids on
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Amanda L. Clark; Kathryn Mansfield Matera
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Oxidation of low density lipoproteins (LDL) in the presence of myeloperoxidase and subsequent uptake of the oxidized LDL by specialized receptors on macrophages has been suggested as an initiating event of atherosclerosis. Oxidized fatty acid chains within the glycerophospholipids of LDL have been i