Scientific article
English

Molecular imaging reveals rapid reduction of endothelial activation in early atherosclerosis with apocynin independent of antioxidative properties

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Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, vol. 33, no. 9, p. 2187-2192

Publication date

2013

Abstract

Antioxidative drugs continue to be developed for the treatment of atherosclerosis. Apocynin is an nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase inhibitor with anti-inflammatory properties. We used contrast-enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging to assess whether short-term apocynin therapy in atherosclerosis reduces vascular oxidative stress and endothelial activation

Keywords

  • Acetophenones/pharmacology
  • Animals
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents/pharmacology
  • Antioxidants/pharmacology
  • Aortic Diseases/drug therapy/genetics/metabolism/pathology/ultrasonography
  • Atherosclerosis/drug therapy/genetics/metabolism/pathology/ultrasonography
  • Biological Markers/metabolism
  • Blotting, Western
  • Contrast Media/diagnostic use
  • Cytidine Deaminase/deficiency/genetics
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects/metabolism/pathology/ultrasonography
  • Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
  • Macrophages/drug effects/metabolism
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Microbubbles
  • Molecular Imaging/methods
  • NADPH Oxidase/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism
  • Oxidative Stress/drug effects
  • Phenotype
  • Platelet Adhesiveness/drug effects
  • Platelet Glycoprotein GPIb-IX Complex/metabolism
  • Receptors, LDL/genetics/metabolism
  • Superoxides/metabolism
  • Time Factors
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional
  • Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/metabolism

Citation (ISO format)

KHANICHEH, Elham et al. Molecular imaging reveals rapid reduction of endothelial activation in early atherosclerosis with apocynin independent of antioxidative properties. In: Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2013, vol. 33, n° 9, p. 2187–2192. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.113.301710

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1079-5642
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