Article
Overproduction of a buoyant low density lipoprotein subspecies in spontaneously hypercholesterolemic mutant pigs.
Arteriosclerosis and thrombosis : a journal of vascular biology - 1 Jan 2000
Checovich W J, Aiello R J, Attie A D
Abstract excerpt
We previously described the hypercholesterolemia of pigs with defined apolipoprotein B (apo B) alleles associated with reduced binding of low density lipoprotein (LDL) to its receptor in vitro and slow clearance from the circulation in vivo. The increased plasma LDL in the hypercholesterolemic pigs was confined to a buoyant LDL subspecies. Because of this qualitative change in the LDL subspecies profile, we...
Topics
- Animals
- Apolipoproteins B
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Lipoproteins, LDL
- Phenotype
- Swine
