Significados de oxidize lipoproteins em inglês

Background: Atherosclerotic lesions grow via the accumulation of leukocytes and oxidized lipoproteins in the vessel wall.

The over expression of tissue factor is proposed to be due to high levels of blood cholesterol and oxidized lipoproteins.

Background: Atherosclerosis is associated with immune responses to oxidized lipoproteins and certain microorganisms, but the role of specific immunity has remained unclear.

Because oxidized lipoproteins may play a central role in atherogenesis, we have explored the possibility that cholesterol is a target for damage by myeloperoxidase.

While PC and MDA are found on apoptotic cells and oxidized lipoproteins, antibodies to these antigens are also cross-reactive with epitopes on bacterial species.

Antigen-specific T cells reactive with oxidized lipoproteins and heat shock proteins have been isolated from plaques, indicating that local activation and clonal expansion might occur.

This IRA B cell-dependent T helper-1 skewing manifests in an IgG1-to-IgG2c isotype switch in the immunoglobulin response against oxidized lipoproteins.