CXCR4,:

Yvonne Döring, Heidi Noels1, Emiel P C van der Vorst

  • 1From Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK), LMU Munich, Germany (Y.D., E.P.C.v.d.V., C.N., V.E., M.D., M.M., Y.J., K.B., R.T.A.M., C.R., O.S., E.T., C.W.); Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR), RWTH Aachen University, Germany (H.N., L.P., W.T.); Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Vascular Research Centre, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (K.S., R.P.B.); Division of Nephrology and Immunology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Germany (B.M.K., P.B.); Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Department of Biochemistry, Maastricht University, the Netherlands (R.T.A.M., R.v.G., T.M.H., C.W.); Academic Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Department of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam University, the Netherlands (P.J.H.K., A.v.D.W., E.T.); Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, LMU Munich, Germany (G.G.); DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Frankfurt am Main, Germany (R.P.B.); DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Germany (O.S., C.W.); Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinksa Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (O.S.); Max-Plank-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany (D.V.); Institute for Laboratory Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany (D.T., L.M.H.); and Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (D.J.R., D.S.).

Circulation
|April 29, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

血管系CXCR4は動脈の整体性と内皮壁機能を維持することで動脈硬化を抑制する. CXCR4の遺伝子変異は冠動脈疾患のリスクと関連しており,治療の可能性を示唆しています.