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H Nonaka1, T Tsujino, Y Watari

  • 1Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.

Circulation
|September 6, 2001
PubMed
まとめ

高濃度のホモシステインは,エンドプラズマ網膜 (ER) のストレスを引き起こし,細胞外スーパーオキシドディスミュータゼ (EC-SOD) の分泌を減少させ,動脈硬化を促進します. タウリンは,ERのストレスを軽減し,EC-SODレベルを回復することによって,これに対抗します.

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