News tagged with lipoprotein

Benefits of statin therapy may extend beyond lowering lipids

People with high cholesterol are at risk of heart attack and stroke because atherosclerotic plaques within their arteries can rupture triggering the formation of a blood clot called an occlusive thrombus that ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Statin-intolerant patients need a different type of clinical trial

(Medical Xpress) -- Millions of people take statins, the blockbuster drug that lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called bad cholesterol. But as many as 20 percent of them develop adverse effects such as muscle ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Psoriasis is associated with impaired HDL function

Collaborative research from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that psoriasis patients have an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death, especially if the psoriasis ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Injection lowers cholesterol in preliminary human trial

Patients unable to control their cholesterol levels with medications may someday be able to lower their "bad" cholesterol with a shot, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Novel therapeutic target identified to decrease triglycerides and increase 'good' cholesterol

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center today announce findings published in the October 20 issue of Nature that show for the first time the inhibition of both microRNA-33a and microRNA-33b (miR-33a/b) with chemically modifi ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'

In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

A 'nutty' solution to type 2 diabetes management

Eating nuts every day could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent its complications, according to new research from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First joint ESC/EAS guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), driven by the global pandemics of obesity and diabetes, poses a daunting challenge to clinicians in the 21st century. Despite progress, there is still much to be done to improve the control of ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blueberry's effects on cholesterol examined in lab animal study

Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Super-sticky 'ultra-bad' cholesterol revealed in people at high risk of heart disease

Scientists from the University of Warwick have discovered why a newly found form of cholesterol seems to be 'ultra-bad', leading to increased risk of heart disease. The discovery could lead to new treatments to prevent heart ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NIH stops clinical trial on combination cholesterol treatment

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying a blood lipid treatment 18 months earlier than planned. The trial found that adding high dose, ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

FDA panel to weigh revoking key use of Abbott drug

(AP) -- A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will consider this week whether to revoke a key indication from Abbott's blockbuster cholesterol drug Trilipix.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New protein could prove powerful target for cholesterol lowering drugs

A protein has been discovered that may have a profound effect on cholesterol metabolism. That discovery raises the possibility that the protein, dubbed IDOL, could be a powerful target for cholesterol-lowering drugs, says ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High levels of 'good' cholesterol may cut bowel cancer risk

High levels of "good" (high density lipoprotein) HDL cholesterol seem to cut the risk of bowel cancer, suggests research published online in Gut.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Study reinforces link between obesity, high-fat meals and heart disease

The effect of a high-fat meal on blood vessel walls can vary among individuals depending on factors such as their waist size and triglyceride levels, suggests new research at UC Davis.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 9

Lipoprotein

A lipoprotein is a biochemical assembly that contains both proteins and lipids water-bound to the proteins. Many enzymes, transporters, structural proteins, antigens, adhesins, and toxins are lipoproteins. Examples include the high-density (HDL) and low-density (LDL) lipoproteins, which enable fats to be carried in the blood stream, the transmembrane proteins of the mitochondrion and the chloroplast, and bacterial lipoproteins.

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