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Hypercholesterolemia, Hypocholesterolemia, Hypertriglyceridemia, in Vivo Kinetics

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  • © 1991

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 285)

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Table of contents (50 chapters)

  1. Cholesterol Metabolism

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The past two decades have seen steady progress in our understanding of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The role of low density lipoprotein (LOL) increase and of LOL receptor deficiency or malfunctions in familial hypercholesterolemia has been largely enlightened by the works of Brown and Goldstein. These authors postulated also that modification of LOL to a form recognized by the scavenger or acetyl-LOL receptor may be required for lipid loading of macrophage-derived foam cells in the lesions. A growing body of evidence suggests that oxidative modification of LOL could enhance its atherogenicity by its implication as a factor in the generation of foam cells. Thus, if the role of LOL in the pathogenesis of hypercholesterolemia was well established a great deal of information appears currently on new approaches such as the mechanisms leading to the accumulation of foam cells, the impact of LOL structural alterations, notably oxidation and the role of gene mutations of apolipoprotein Band/or LOL receptor The opening topic is devoted to these new avenues outlined in the field of hypercholesterolemia. The first part concerns the genetic aspects of atherosclerosis: mainly the genetics of apo 1 ipoprote ins , their transcriptional regulation, the amino acid mutations of the apo B gene and of the LOL receptor gene, the structural domains and the acylation sites of apoprotein B.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Foundation on Atherosclerosis, Brussels, Belgium

    Claude L. Malmendier

  • Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Resaerch Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, USA

    P. Alaupovic

  • Molecular Disease Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

    H. Bryan Brewer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hypercholesterolemia, Hypocholesterolemia, Hypertriglyceridemia, in Vivo Kinetics

  • Editors: Claude L. Malmendier, P. Alaupovic, H. Bryan Brewer

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5904-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5906-7Published: 14 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5904-3Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 454

  • Topics: Diabetes, Internal Medicine, Biochemistry, general, Human Genetics

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