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Serum albumin and cardiovascular disease: State-of-the-art review.
Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Conceptually, endothelial dysfunction, inflammatory conditions and oxidative stress are at the forefront of the onset and development of most cardiovascular diseases, particularly coronary artery disease and heart failure. Serum albumin has many physiological properties, including in particular antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and anti-platelet aggregation activity. It also plays an essential role in the exchange of fluids across the capillary membrane. Hypoalbuminemia is a powerful prognostic marker in the general population as ...
Source: Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie - August 10, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Arques S Tags: Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris) Source Type: research

Probucol Trial for Secondary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Events in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease (PROSPECTIVE).
CONCLUSION: Since there was no statistical significance between the probucol and control groups despite a marked reduction of HDL-C, further studies on the clinical outcomes of probucol on top of conventional therapy may be necessary in the future (UMIN000003307). PMID: 32336695 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis - April 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Tags: J Atheroscler Thromb Source Type: research

Challenges in Drug Development Targeting Anti-atherosclerotic Proteins.
Abstract Atherosclerosis is a vascular disease responsible for acute heart attacks and stroke, which are leading causes of death not only in industrialized countries but also worldwide, and the number of patients afflicted by this disease has been increasing in Japan. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is the plasma lipoprotein that carries what is often called your "good cholesterol" through the blood. This good cholesterol moniker is associated with HDL because higher circulating levels of this lipoprotein are associated with a well-known reduction in the risk of arteriosclerosis. Moreover, many protective mechanism...
Source: Yakugaku Zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan - February 6, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Okuhira K Tags: Yakugaku Zasshi Source Type: research

Causal Associations Between Serum Bilirubin Levels and Decreased Stroke Risk: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide evidence of significant causal relationship between high levels of bilirubin and decreased stroke risk in Korean population in agreement with observational approaches. This highlights the potential for bilirubin to serve as a therapeutic target for oxidative stress-related diseases such as stroke and suggests that previous findings were not a consequence of unmeasured confounding. PMID: 31801373 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology - December 4, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Choi Y, Lee SJ, Spiller W, Jung KJ, Lee JY, Kimm H, Back JH, Lee S, Jee SH Tags: Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol Source Type: research

Antithrombotic activity of flavonoids and polyphenols rich plant species.
Abstract Cardiovascular diseases represent one of the most notable health problems of the modern civilization. Stroke and heart attack often lead to lethal outcome; essential problem underneath being thrombus formation. Prophylactic approaches include acetylsalicylic acid and clopidogrel therapy on the level of primary hemostasis, i.e., primary clot formation. In the last five years, in the USA, health care expenses related to cardiovascular diseases have increased 50 %, to over 350 billion dollars. Thus, application of plant species and medicinal plants rich in polyphenols in prevention of thrombus formation are ...
Source: Acta Pharmaceutica - October 23, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Bojić M, Maleš Ž, Antolić A, Babić I, Tomičić M Tags: Acta Pharm Source Type: research

Role of flavonoids in thrombotic, cardiovascular, and inflammatory diseases
AbstractThe failure of mechanisms of natural anti-coagulation either due to genetic impairment or due to severe external injuries may result in a condition called thrombosis. This is believed to be the primary cause for a variety of life-threatening conditions such as: heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism, thrombophlebitis, and deep venous thrombosis (DVT). The growing number of these incidents requires an alternative anti-coagulant or anti-thrombotic agent that has minimal side effects and improved efficiency. For decades, plant polyphenols, especially flavonoids, were known for their vital role in preventing various ...
Source: Inflammopharmacology - July 14, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Using Dental Pulp Stem Cells for Stroke Therapy
Conclusion and Future Perspectives Stem cell-based therapy is a promising alternative for stroke treatment. While stem cells from different sources, including induced PSC, ESC, MSC, and NSC, have been investigated, using NSC and enhancing the natural mechanisms is most appropriate for brain repair. In preclinical models of stroke, stem cell transplantation has led to positive outcomes through a variety of cellular and molecular mechanisms, many being mediated by the array of beneficial factors produced by the cells. Recent advances in cellular reprogramming have provided alternative sources of NSC to be investigated, allo...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 28, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Cryptotanshinone Attenuates Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation/ Recovery-Induced Injury in an in vitro Model of Neurovascular Unit
Conclusions Despite the above limitations, we indicate that the protective mechanism of CTs against OGD/R damage might exert via inhibiting neuron apoptosis and attenuating BBB disruption. Furthermore, we also clarified that CTs inhibited neuronal apoptosis possibly by blocking the activation of MAPK signaling pathways, and CTs alleviating BBB disruption may associated with the regulation of TJPs and MMP-9 in our experiment. Accordingly, CTs will represent a novel and potent candidate for the treatment of CIRI in the future. Ethics Statement This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of China�...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 17, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Primary Sj ögren's Syndrome: Does Inflammation Matter?
Conclusions The markers of endothelial activation and damage and of chronic inflammation investigated until now failed to result predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis or to be associated with increased risk of CV events in SS patients. This may suggest that other mechanisms are implicated with increased prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in SS or that these biomarkers exert a different mechanism in the pathogenesis of endothelial damage and in the induction of atherosclerosis. Surely, the relationship between the disease itself and inflammatory and immune dysfunction factors is quite complex and still to be cla...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 16, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

New Biomarkers for Atherothrombosis in Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Genomics and Epigenetics Approaches
Conclusions In recent years, there have been many advances in the understanding of the molecular basis for vascular involvement in APS, but many areas need to be further investigated, in particular the association between altered genetic/epigenetic profiles, autoantibodies and clinical manifestations, and the effectiveness of new therapeutic strategies. It would be interesting to apply next generation sequencing technologies like RNA-Seq along with GWAS to screen both, the gene profile and the whole transcriptome of large cohorts of primary APS patients, in order to reveal the mutations/polymorphisms, post-transcriptiona...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 15, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Reduction of Ischemia Reperfusion-Related Brain Hemorrhage by Stachybotrys Microspora Triprenyl Phenol-7 in Mice With Antioxidant Effects
Stachybotrys microspora triprenyl phenol-7 (SMTP-7) has both thrombolytic and anti-inflammatory effects, but its neuroprotective effects on cerebral ischemia are still unclear. The present study assessed the antioxidative and neurovascular unit (NVU) protective effects of SMTP-7 using transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) mice.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - September 7, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Yong Huang, Yasuyuki Ohta, Jingwei Shang, Xianghong Li, Xia Liu, Xiaowen Shi, Tian Feng, Toru Yamashita, Kota Sato, Mami Takemoto, Nozomi Hishikawa, Eriko Suzuki, Keiji Hasumi, Koji Abe Source Type: research

Prevention of cardiovascular diseases with anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant nutraceuticals and herbal products: An overview of pre-clinical and clinical studies.
CONCLUSION: It is concluded that nutraceuticals possess enormous health benefits and their interventions can be highly beneficial in the prevention/reduction of CVDs and related disorders such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart attack and stroke. The findings of this review provide an update on the emerging uses of nutraceuticals, functional foods, and herbal remedies in humans. Nevertheless, large-scale randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials are needed to confirm the health benefit claims about nutraceuticals and herbal products to establish their long-term safety and to resolve the controversy ...
Source: Recent Patents on Inflammation and Allergy Drug Discovery - August 17, 2018 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Recent Pat Inflamm Allergy Drug Discov Source Type: research

Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide (NBP) ：A Promising Therapeutic Agent for Ischemic Stroke.
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide (NBP)：A Promising Therapeutic Agent for Ischemic Stroke. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2018 Jun 12;: Authors: Wang S, Ma F, Huang LJ, Zhang Y, Peng YC, Xing CH, Feng YP, Wang XL, Peng Y Abstract Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries all over the world. The only drug for ischemic stroke approved by FDA is recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA). However, only 2-5% stroke patients receive rtPAs treatment due to its strict therapeutic time window. As ischemic stroke is a complex disease involving in multiple mecha...
Source: CNS and Neurological Disorders Drug Targets - June 12, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Wang S, Ma F, Huang LJ, Zhang Y, Peng YC, Xing CH, Feng YP, Wang XL, Peng Y Tags: CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets Source Type: research

Antibodies against HDL Components in Ischaemic Stroke and Coronary Artery Disease.
In this study, we investigated whether antibodies against HDL components had additional value to conventional cardiovascular risk factors for the diagnosis of ischaemic stroke (IS) and coronary artery disease (CAD). Cross-sectional study was conducted on 53 patients with IS, 51 with CAD and 55 healthy controls, and in vitro studies to validate findings of the clinical study. We determined serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against HDL (aHDL), apolipoproteins (aApoA-I, aApoA-II and aApoC-I) and paraoxonase-1 (aPON1) as well as PON1 activity (PON1a), total antioxidant capacity and biomarkers of endothelial activation (s...
Source: Thrombosis and Haemostasis - May 3, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Batuca JR, Amaral MC, Favas C, Justino GC, Papoila AL, Ames PRJ, Alves JD Tags: Thromb Haemost Source Type: research

Human serum albumin in cardiovascular diseases.
Abstract Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and oxidative stress are at the forefront in the onset and development of atherosclerosis and many cardiovascular diseases. Epidemiological evidence is that low serum albumin levels are linked to incident ischemic heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, stroke and venous thromboembolism, independent of risk factors, body mass index and inflammation. Hypoalbuminemia has also emerged as an independent prognosticator in many cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease, heart failure...
Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - April 18, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Arques S Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research

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