Ioanna Andreadou, Efstathios K Iliodromitis, Antigone Lazou, Anikó Görbe, Zoltán Giricz, Rainer Schulz, Péter Ferdinandy
Hypercholesterolaemia is considered to be a principle risk factor for cardiovascular disease, having direct negative effects on the myocardium itself, in addition to the development of atherosclerosis. Since hypercholesterolaemia affects the global cardiac gene expression profile, among many other factors, it results in increased myocardial oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation triggered apoptosis, all of which may account for myocardial dysfunction and increased susceptibility of the myocardium to infarction...
June 2017: British Journal of Pharmacology