| Literature DB >> 9707013 |
K Watanabe1, K Toba, Y Ogawa, M Kodama, S Hirono, Y Ohkura, H Hanawa, Y Nakamura, Y Aoki, I Fuse, Y Aizawa, S Miyajima, Y Kusano, T Nagatomo, G Hasegawa, M Naito.
Abstract
CD36 is a multifunctional membrane-type receptor glycoprotein that reacts with oxidized low-density lipoprotein and long-chain fatty acid (LCFA). A patient presented with hereditary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and type I CD36 deficiency (neither platelets nor monocytes expressed CD36) but showed no myocardial LCFA accumulation. CD36 was expressed in the capillary endothelial cells of the cardiac muscle of a control subject, while the patient's myocardial capillary endothelial cells were completely CD36-negative. These results suggest that type I CD36 deficiency is closely related to hereditary HCM and lack of myocardial LCFA accumulation.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9707013 DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.541
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn Circ J ISSN: 0047-1828