Atherosclerosis
Volume 182, Issue 1 , Pages 17-28 , September 2005

Dietary cholesterol suppresses the ability of olive oil to delay the development of atherosclerotic lesions in apolipoprotein E knockout mice

  • Sergio Acín

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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  • María A. Navarro

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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  • Ricardo Carnicer

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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  • José M. Arbonés-Mainar

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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  • Mario A. Guzmán

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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  • Carmen Arnal

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Patología Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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  • Gabriel Beltrán

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Investigación y Formación Agraria “Venta del Llano”, Mengibar, Spain
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  • Marino Uceda

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Investigación y Formación Agraria “Venta del Llano”, Mengibar, Spain
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  • Nobuyo Maeda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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  • Jesús Osada

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Veterinary School, University of Zaragoza, Miguel Servet, 177, E-50013 Zaragoza, Spain. Tel.: +34 976 761644; fax: +34 976 761612.

Received 29 September 2004 ,Revised 21 January 2005 ,Accepted 27 January 2005.

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PII: S0021-9150(05)00104-8

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.01.050

Atherosclerosis
Volume 182, Issue 1 , Pages 17-28 , September 2005

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