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R Y Ball, J P Bindman, K L Carpenter, M J Mitchinson.
Abstract
The presence of ceroid pigment inclusions within macrophage foam cells is a well-recognized phenomenon in human atherosclerosis but its significance is unclear. Murine peritoneal macrophages, maintained in a medium containing 10% lipoprotein-deficient fetal calf serum to which oxidized low density lipoprotein (LDL) has been added, rapidly accumulate similar ceroid inclusions. However, cells exposed to LDL, acetyl--LDL or dextran sulphate--LDL complexes fail to develop ceroid under the same culture conditions. Oxidation of LDL results in considerable physico-chemical changes to both protein and lipid moieties, and these may be important in the uptake of the particles by macrophages and, subsequently, the accumulation of intracellular ceroid.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 2424465 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9150(86)90009-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Atherosclerosis ISSN: 0021-9150 Impact factor: 5.162