Lipoprotein metabolism and thrombosis
Autor: | K. A. Mitropoulos |
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Rok vydání: | 1994 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 8 Arteriosclerosis Lipoproteins Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Thromboplastin Tissue factor chemistry.chemical_compound Thrombin Internal medicine Genetics medicine Animals Humans Lipolysis Blood Coagulation Molecular Biology Nutrition and Dietetics Factor VII Chemistry Thrombosis Blood Proteins Cell Biology medicine.disease Atheroma Endocrinology Coagulation Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Lipidology. 5:227-235 |
ISSN: | 0957-9672 |
Popis: | Recent evidence suggests that long-chain saturated fatty acids (i.e. stearic acid), produced on lipolysis of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in the interface of circulating remnant particles provide a contact surface that activates the contact system of coagulation and subsequently activates factor VII. Increased level of circulating activated factor VII is probably of little consequence to a healthy individual with minimal expression of tissue factor in the vasculature. However, at a site of an atheromatous plaque or at a vascular injury site where there is tissue factor activity, increased circulating activated factor VII is expected to generate thrombin at a higher rate. Propagation of the prothrombotic environment will be facilitated on expression of additional tissue factor that is induced by the local increased concentration of thrombin. Thrombin with its receptor-mediated interactions with blood and vessel wall cells can signal inflammatory and proliferative responses such as those that occur in atheroma. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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