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Oxidized low-density lipoprotein induces apoptosis in endothelial progenitor cells by inactivating the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt pathway.
Journal of vascular research - 1 Jan 2010
Tie Guodong, Yan Jinglian, Yang Yagai, Park Brian D, Messina Julia A, Raffai Robert L, Nowicki Philip T, Messina Louis M
Abstract excerpt
We tested the hypothesis that oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL)-induced inactivation of Akt within endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) is mediated at the level of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), specifically by nitrosylation of the p85 subunit of PI3K, and that this action is critical in provoking oxLDL-induced EPC apoptosis. Hypercholesterolemic ApoE null mice had a significant reduction of the...
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