Fluvastatin prevents vascular hyperplasia by inhibiting phenotype modulation and proliferation through extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 and 2 and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inactivation in organ-cultured artery.

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OBJECTIVE: We examined the inhibitory mechanisms of fluvastatin on FBS-induced vascular hypertrophy assessed by organ-cultured rat tail artery. METHODS AND RESULTS: After 5 days of culture with 10% FBS, hyperplastic morphological changes in the media layer were induced. Treatment with 1 mumol/L fluvastatin significantly inhibited these changes. In the FBS-cultured arteries, the protein expression ratio of...

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