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PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 174-178Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2009.01.006
Keywords
AGEs; CVD; Oxidative stress; RAGE
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
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Non-enzymatic modification of proteins by reducing sugars leads to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), whose process has been reported to progress under physiological aging, oxidative stress or diabetic conditions. There is a growing body of evidence that AGEs and their receptor (RAGE) axis is involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Indeed, engagement of RAGE with AGEs is shown to elicit oxidative stress generation and subsequently evoke inflammatory and thrombogenic responses in various types of cells, including endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, macrophages and renal cells, thus playing an important role in the development and progression of vascular injury in both diabetes and non-diabetes. These observations suggest that the inhibition of AGE formation, clown-regulation of RAGE expression or blockade of the RAGE downstream signaling may be a promising therapeutic target for preventing CVD. Recently, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR gamma) is involved in riot only adipocyte differentiation, but also vascular homeostasis. Therefore, in this study, we review effects of PPAR gamma agonists on the AGE-RAGE system and their implication in CVD. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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