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Viruses: causal factors in atherosclerosis
1Department of Veterinary Microbiology, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853.
Microbiological Sciences
|February 1, 1986
Abstract:
Herpesvirus infections may lead to atherosclerosis by altering arterial cell lipid metabolism. In a pathogen-free animal model, the virus-induced arterial disease closely resembled human atherosclerosis. These and other experimental findings may eventually lead to the control of human cardiovascular disease.