The HDL handbook
Subtitle: biological functions and clinical implications
By: edited by Tsugikazu Komoda
Contributors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Publisher: Academic; Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780123821713
Subjects: Physiological effect; High density lipoproteins; Metabolism
Description: The HDL Handbook: Biological Functions to Clinical Implications brings laboratory research in HDL from bench to bedside in this needed resource for researchers and clinicians studying cholesterol, lipids, epidemiology, biochemistry, molecular medicine, and pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases. In addition researchers and clinicians working with an aging population, corporate researchers, postdocs; medical students and graduate students will find this publication useful, as the scope of coverage includes basic science, genetics, epidemiology, treatment of HDL cholesterol, as well as, potential targets to modify HDL cholesterol. Comprehensive coverage of basic science, genetics, epidemiology and treatment Reputable content on latest advances in HDL cholesterol research Inclusive, worldwide content with country specific information In depth discussion of potential targets to modify HDL.
Notes: Includes index.

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Table of contents: title: Role of phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) in HDL remodelling and Atherosclerosis; title: The role of CETP in HDL metabolism; title: The physiological role of CETP in HDL molecule metabolism; title: HDL and reverse cholesterol transport: Physiological modulation; title: Serum Paraoxonase PON1 and its interactions with HDL: Relationship between PON1 and oxidative stress; title: Paraoxonase PON1 and its interaction with HDL: Molecular structures of PON1 and HDL; title: Apoliopoprotein A-I mutations; title: The Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I: An HDL Receptor Involved in Lipid Transport and HDL Dependent Signaling; title: HDL and its mimetic peptides: Novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of inflammatory vascular disease; title: Sterol efflux by ABCA1 and ABCG1; title: Possible roles of oxidized HDL: Structural change of HDL particle by oxidative modification and its contribution to vascular diseases; title: Pre?1-HDL: Conversion to and from spherical ?-migrating HDL in human plasma; title: Determination of circulating native and denaturated HDL concentrations and its clinical implications.