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    Publication Date: 2004-02-21
    Description: Dietary cholesterol consumption and intestinal cholesterol absorption contribute to plasma cholesterol levels, a risk factor for coronary heart disease. The molecular mechanism of sterol uptake from the lumen of the small intestine is poorly defined. We show that Niemann-Pick C1 Like 1(NPC1L1) protein plays a critical role in the absorption of intestinal cholesterol. NPC1L1 expression is enriched in the small intestine and is in the brush border membrane of enterocytes. Although otherwise phenotypically normal, NPC1L1-deficient mice exhibit a substantial reduction in absorbed cholesterol, which is unaffected by dietary supplementation of bile acids. Ezetimibe, a drug that inhibits cholesterol absorption, had no effect in NPC1L1 knockout mice, suggesting that NPC1L1 resides in an ezetimibe-sensitive pathway responsible for intestinal cholesterol absorption.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Altmann, Scott W -- Davis, Harry R Jr -- Zhu, Li-Ji -- Yao, Xiaorui -- Hoos, Lizbeth M -- Tetzloff, Glen -- Iyer, Sai Prasad N -- Maguire, Maureen -- Golovko, Andrei -- Zeng, Ming -- Wang, Luquan -- Murgolo, Nicholas -- Graziano, Michael P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Feb 20;303(5661):1201-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cardiovascular/Endocrine Research, Schering-Plough Research Institute, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ, 07033-0539, USA. scott.altmann@spcorp.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14976318" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Anticholesteremic Agents/pharmacology ; Azetidines/pharmacology ; Cholesterol/*metabolism ; Cholesterol, Dietary/*metabolism ; Cholic Acid/administration & dosage/pharmacology ; Computational Biology ; Enterocytes/*metabolism ; Ezetimibe ; Female ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Humans ; *Intestinal Absorption/drug effects ; Intestine, Small/metabolism ; Jejunum/metabolism ; Liver/metabolism ; Male ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Membrane Transport Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Knockout ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Journal of biomedical science 1 (1993), S. 43-48 
    ISSN: 1423-0127
    Keywords: Endothelium-derived relaxing factor ; Nitric oxide ; Platelets ; 111Indium oxine ; Cyclic GMP ; Zaprinast
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) or nitric oxide (NO) biosynthesis fromL-arginine occurs in the endothelium and platelets and may modulate plate-let function and contribute to thromboresistance in the vessel wall. A rat model was used to evaluate selective accumulation of111In-labeled platelets in the pulmonary microcirculation following the administration of collagen, adenosine 5′-diphosphate (ADP) or thrombin. Platelet aggregation was monitored continuously over the thorax using a microcomputer-based system. Sodium nitroprusside, a stimulator of soluble guanylate cyclase and zaprinast, a phosphodiesterase V inhibitor, both known to cause accumulation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate, exhibited moderate inhibitory activity, which was shared byL-arginine. NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA; 1 mg/kg/min), an inhibitor of EDRF(NO), potentiated the aggregatory response to collagen at an intravenous dose of 100 µg/kg but not at one of 30 µg/kg. D-NMMA had no such effect. The augmenting effect of L-NMMA was abolished byL-arginine. NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME; 0.1 mg/kg/min) also markedly augmented the collagen-induced platelet response, and, at higher doses, all treated animals died upon collagen challenge. Both L-NMMA and L-NAME did not affect the responses to ADP and thrombin. The results suggest that in the intact vascular system, basal release of EDRF(NO) is not critically involved in modulation of platelet function but becomes a significant factor when platelets are exposed to great amounts of collagen fibrils.
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