Atherosclerosis
Volume 206, Issue 2 , Pages 355-361, October 2009

Statin prevents plaque disruption in apoE-knockout mouse model through pleiotropic effect on acute inflammation

  • Kae Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
    • ,
  • Takeshi Sasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
    • Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Xian Wu Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Research Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • Department of Cardiology, Yanbian University Hospital, 119 Juzijie, Yanji, Jilin Province 133000, China
    • ,
  • Akihisa Iguchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
    • ,
  • Kohji Sato

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Masafumi Kuzuya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 52 744 2364; fax: +81 52 744 2371.

Received 14 January 2009; received in revised form 4 February 2009; accepted 5 February 2009. published online 18 March 2009.

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PII: S0021-9150(09)00105-1

doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.02.014

Atherosclerosis
Volume 206, Issue 2 , Pages 355-361, October 2009

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