Surfactant protein D is proatherogenic in mice

• Published in: American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology Vol. 290; no. 6; pp. H2286 - H2294
• Main Authors: Sorensen, Grith L, Madsen, Jens, Kejling, Karin, Tornoe, Ida, Nielsen, Ole, Townsend, Paul, Poulain, Francis, Nielsen, Claus H, Reid, Kenneth B. M, Hawgood, Samuel, Falk, Erling, Holmskov, Uffe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2006
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Newborn; Aorta - pathology; Atherosclerosis - chemically induced; Atherosclerosis - metabolism; Atherosclerosis - pathology; Blotting, Western; Cells, Cultured; Cytokines - biosynthesis; Dietary Fats - pharmacology; Half-Life; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Inflammation - pathology; Lipid Metabolism; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Mice, Knockout; Myocardium - pathology; Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D - genetics; Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D - isolation & purification; Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D - toxicity; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA - biosynthesis; RNA - isolation & purification; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - metabolism

1 Medical Biotechnological Center, University of Southern Denmark, and 2 Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; 3 Department of Biochemistry, Medical Research Council Immunochemistry Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4 Department of Pediatrics, Univer...