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血清の細胞アシルCoA:コレステロールアシルトランスファーゼ活性を下げる能力は,心血管疾患のアウトカムを予測する
Julio A Chirinos1, Juan P Zambrano, Simon Chakko
1Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33138, USA.
Circulation
|October 19, 2005
まとめ
血清コレステロール流出活性 (コレステロールをエステル化のために低下させる能力によって測定される) は,独立して主要な有害心血管疾患 (MACE) と男性における死亡を予測します. この発見は,心血管リスク評価に関する新しい洞察を提供します.
科学分野:
- 心血管医学 心血管医学
- バイオケミストリー バイオケミストリー
- 脂質代謝 脂質代謝とは
背景:
- 血清コレステロール流出活動と冠動脈疾患 (CAD) の関連性を調査した.
- コレステロール流出と主要な心血管疾患 (MACE) の有害事象および死亡のリスクとの関連を調べた.
研究 の 目的:
- 血清コレステロール流出活動が血管学的CADの存在を予測するかどうかを判断する.
- コレステロール流出活動とMACEおよび死亡のリスクとの関連性を評価する.
主な方法:
- 冠動脈血管撮影を受けた168人の男性を研究した.
- 患者の血清とヒトの皮膚線維芽細胞を用いて,実験室内でのコレステロール流出活性を測定した.
- 血清のコレステロールを減少させる能力によって定義されたエフフルス活性,アシルCoA:コレステロールアシルトランスファーゼ (ACAT) エステル化のために利用可能なコレステロール.
- MACEと死亡を追跡するために,4.5年間患者を追跡しました.
主要な成果:
- ACAT活性における血清誘発の変化は,HDLレベルやCADの存在と相関していなかった.
- ACAT活性変化の最高端の患者には,MACE (HR, 2.15) と死亡 (HR, 2.23) のリスクが著しく高かった.
- これらの相関は,LDL,HDL,C反応性タンパク質などの他のリスクマーカーとは無関係でした.
結論:
- ACATのエステル化のために細胞のコレステロールを枯渇させる血清の能力は,MACEと死亡の強い,独立した予測因子です.
- この活動にはATP結合カセットトランスポーターA1 (ABCA1) 媒介のエフフルスが含まれていると推測されています.
- 血清内のACATに影響を与えるHDL粒子の増加は,生体内でのABCA1活性に制限されていると仮定した.
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