Evaluation of HDL-modulating interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction using a systems pharmacology approach

The recent failures of cholesteryl ester transport protein inhibitor drugs to decrease CVD risk, despite raising HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, suggest that pharmacologic increases in HDL-C may not always reflect elevations in reverse cholesterol transport (RCT), the process by which HDL is believe...

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Main Authors: Kapil Gadkar, James Lu, Srikumar Sahasranaman, John Davis, Norman A. Mazer, Saroja Ramanujan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520314000