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The effects of endothelial lipase gene (LIPG) variants on inflammation marker levels and atherosclerosis development.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Aug 2013
Dalan Altay Burak, Toptaş Bahar, Buğra Zehra, Polat Nihat, Yılmaz-Aydoğan Hülya, Çimen Arif, Isbir Turgay
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Atherosclerosis is a major pathological process related with several important adverse vascular events including coronary artery disease, stroke, and peripheral arterial disease. Endothelial lipase is an enzyme the activity of which affects all of lipoproteins, whereas HDL is the main substrate. The purpose of our study was to investigate the effects of endothelial lipase gene polymorphism and inflammation...
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