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Vascular respiratory uncoupling increases blood pressure and atherosclerosis.
Nature - 26 May 2005
Bernal-Mizrachi Carlos, Gates Allison C, Weng Sherry, Imamura Takuji, Knutsen Russell H, DeSantis Pascual, Coleman Trey, Townsend R Reid, Muglia Louis J, Semenkovich Clay F
Abstract excerpt
The observations that atherosclerosis often occurs in non-smokers without elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and that most atherosclerosis loci so far identified in mice do not affect systemic risk factors associated with atherosclerosis, suggest that as-yet-unidentified mechanisms must contribute to vascular disease. Arterial walls undergo regional disturbances of metabolism that include the...
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