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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Gordon S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2901108 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current cardiovascular risk reports 20100101 1
Recent proteomics studies on human plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) have discovered up to 50 individual protein constituents. Many of these have known functions that vary surprisingly from the lipid transport roles commonly thought to mediate HDL's ability to protect from coronary artery disease. Given newly discovered roles in inflammation, protease inhibition, complement regulation, and innate immunity, many have begun to view HDL as a broad collection of distinct particle subfamilies, ea ...[more]