periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory disease which represents a primarily anaerobic gram‑negative oral infection that results in gingival inflammation, loss of attachment, bone destruction. bacterial endotoxins in the form of lipopolysaccharides (lps) that are instrumentalin generating a host‑mediated tissue destructive immune response by mobilizing their defensivecells and releasing c...

The mechanism by which competitive inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase decrease serum cholesterol is incompletely understood. The few available data in humans suggest that chronic administration of the competitive inhibitor, lovastatin, decreases serum cholesterol with little or no change in total body sterol synthesis. To further define the effect of lovasta...

Protein phosphatase C was purified 1500-fold from rat liver by a six-step procedure including a fractionation step with 80% ethanol at room temperature and two successive chromatographic separations on DEAESephadex. This preparation restored hydrox~ethyl glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase activity in liver microsomes pretreated with MgATP and also inactivated HMG-CoA reductase kinase. The relativ...

Rat liver microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase [HMG-CoA reductase; mevalonate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-acylating), EC 1.1.1.34], the key regulatory enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis, has been purified to apparent homogeneity. Purified HMG-CoA reductase yields a single diffuse band when NaDodSO4/polyacrylamide gels are stained with Coomassie blue and yields two adjacent bands wh...

3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase (HMG-CoA reductase) plays a rate-limiting role in isoprenoid biosynthesis and is associated with cell proliferation and transformation. Although an elevated level of HMG-CoA reductase activity is consistently detected in cancer cell lines and tumors, the question remains whether HMG-CoA reductase activity may have a causative role in cell transformation....

Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 and COX-1 play an important role in prostacyclin production in vessels and participate in maintaining vascular homeostasis. Statins are inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase, which is crucial in cholesterol biosynthesis. Recently, cholesterol-independent effects of statins have been described. In this study, we evaluated the effect of two...