Atherosclerosis

In Atherosclerosis: Experimental Methods and Protocols, Angela Drew and a panel of experts have assembled a comprehensive collection of traditional and cutting-edge techniques for investigating this disease and its possible treatments. Each readily reproducible method includes step-by-step instructions and practical information regarding sample collection, the choice of animal model system, experimental design, and practical data analysis techniques. Comprehensive and richly detailed, Atherosclerosis: Experimental Methods and Protocols enables all biomedical investigators to select those optimized techniques that may be most fruitfully used to study the development, progression, and treatment of atherosclerotic lesions today.

Contents:

1. Animal Models of Diet-Induced Atherosclerosis
Angela Drew
pp. 1-6

2. Mechanical Injury Models: Balloon Catheter Injury to Rat Common Carotid Artery
Rodney Dilley
pp. 7-13

3. Genetically Manipulated Models of Atherosclerosis in Mice
Qing Xiao
pp. 15-26

4. Lipoprotein Isolation and Analysis from Serum by Preparative Ultracentrifugation
Kishor Wasan; Shawn Cassidy; Allison Kennedy; Kathy Peteherych
pp. 27-35

5. Separation of Plasma Lipoproteins in Self-Generated Gradients of Iodixanol
Joan Higgins; John Graham; Ian Davies
pp. 37-49

6. Fractionation of Lipoprotein Subclasses in Self-Generated Gradients of Iodixanol
John Graham; Bruce Griffin; Ian Davies; Joan Higgins
pp. 51-59

7. Detecting Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein in Plasma
Andreas Ritsch; Josef Patsch
pp. 61-76

8. Determination of Plasma Homocysteine
Roberto Accinni; Oberdan Parodi
pp. 77-103

9. Assay for Serum Glycated Lipoproteins
Akira Tanaka
pp. 105-111

10. Lipoprotein( a) Quantitation
Michael Bender; Werner Gross
pp. 113-122

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