High-density lipoprotein binding to scavenger receptor-BI activates endothelial nitric oxide synthase

Atherosclerosis is the primary cause of cardiovascular disease, and the risk for atherosclerosis is inversely proportional to circulating levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. However, the mechanisms by which HDL is atheroprotective are complex and not well understood 1 , 2 . Here we...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature medicine 2001-07, Vol.7 (7), p.853-857
Hauptverfasser: Yuhanna, Ivan S., Zhu, Yan, Cox, Blair E., Hahner, Lisa D., Osborne-Lawrence, Sherri, Lu, Ping, Marcel, Yves L., Anderson, Richard G.W., Mendelsohn, Michael E., Hobbs, Helen H., Shaul, Philip W.
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